Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was a British poet and
soldier in the first world war, and one of the leading poets of the
First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of
trenches and
gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend
Siegfried Sassoon and sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the confidently patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as
Rupert Brooke. Some of his best-known works—most of which were published posthumously—include "
Dulce et Decorum Est", "
Insensibility", "
Anthem for Doomed Youth", "
Futility" and "
Strange Meeting".
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