Wilfred Owen

LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 different recordings of Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 18th, 2008. Author - Wilfred Owen. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19...

A collection of poems by the English war poet and soldier of the First World War, Wilfred Owen. Owen is regarded by historians as the leading poet of the First World War, known for his war poetry on the horrors of trench and gas warfare. It stood in...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Smile, Smile, Smile by Wilfred Owen. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 9th, 2008. Author - Wilfred Owen. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

No poet is more closely identified with the First World War than Wilfred Owen. His striking body of work, grim to the point of brutality yet, at the same time, majestic and awe-inspiring, defines the war for us. It is in each of these famous poems...

The fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar heralds Spring in earnest and of course April Showers and perhaps other unsettled weather. For out poets including Owen, Stevenson, Van Dyke, Hardy and Shelley the month provides a rich source for...

Wilfred Owen was born on 18th March 1893 at Plas Wilmot, near Oswestry in Shropshire, the eldest of four children Wilfred’s education was initially at the Birkenhead Institute and then later at Shrewsbury Technical school.His mothers strong Anglican...

Widely regarded as one of the leading war poets, Owen's work is powerful and shocking, illustrating the true horror faced by soldiers during the First World War. Author - Wilfred Owen. Narrator - David Moore. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

In the War a great volume of poetry was written, produced and published in books, periodicals, newspapers or letters back to home. We often think of War as a necessity. We fight for a more just and better world. We often fail. But in our poets we gain...

War may be rationalized as ‘diplomacy by other means’ but the reality is that when tribes, Nations and peoples bring themselves into armed conflict with one another mayhem, terror and slaughter are the result.In the First World War, The Great War, The...