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'''Wilfred Owen''', (1893 - 1918) <ref>http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owena.htm</ref> was a British [[soldier]] and [[poet]], noted for his works from World War I.  He was killed at the [[Battle of the Sambre]] just a week before the end of the war and not long after an action that led to his being awarded the Military Cross for gallantry.  Owen's work is noted for its stark depiction of the horrors of war, describing the horrors of [[chemical weapon|gas attacks]] and of trench warfare.  His most famous poems are perhaps <i>[[Dulce et Decorum Est]]</i> and <i>Anthem for Doomed Youth</i>.

'''Wilfred Owen''', (1893 - 1918) <ref>http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owena.htm</ref> was a British [[soldier]] and [[poet]], noted for his works from World War I.  He was killed at the [[Battle of the Sambre]] just a week before the end of the war and not long after an action that led to his being awarded the Military Cross for gallantry.  Owen's work is noted for its stark depiction of the horrors of war, describing the horrors of German [[chemical weapon|gas attacks]] and of trench warfare.  His most famous poems are perhaps <i>[[Dulce et Decorum Est]]</i> and <i>Anthem for Doomed Youth</i>.

Much of his poetry was published after his death, but he had written a Preface to this unpublished volume which describes his feelings about war.

Much of his poetry was published after his death, but he had written a Preface to this unpublished volume which describes his feelings about war.

:''If I thought the letter of this book would last, I might have used proper names; but if the spirit of it survives - survives Prussia - my ambition and those names will have achieved themselves fresher fields than Flanders.'' <ref>http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/owen/preface.html</ref>

:''If I thought the letter of this book would last, I might have used proper names; but if the spirit of it survives - survives Prussia - my ambition and those names will have achieved themselves fresher fields than Flanders.'' <ref>http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/owen/preface.html</ref>

Owen's poetry was interspersed with parts of the traditional [[Requiem (music)|Requiem]] Mass for [[Benjamin Britten]]'s ''War Requiem'', written for -  and first performed at - the consecration of the new [[Coventry]] Cathedral in 1962. The original cathedral had been destroyed in a German air raid during [[World War II]]. Both in Britten's score and the liner notes for the first recording are the lines: ''My subject is War and the Pity of Way. The Poetry is in the pity. All a poet can do today is warn''.

Owen's poetry was interspersed with parts of the traditional [[Requiem (music)|Requiem]] Mass for [[Benjamin Britten]]'s ''War Requiem'', written for -  and first performed at - the consecration of the new [[Coventry]] Cathedral in 1962. The original cathedral had been destroyed in a German air raid during [[World War II]]. Both in Britten's score and the liner notes for the first recording are the lines: ''My subject is War and the Pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. All a poet can do today is warn''.