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Hello, Wolfardo and the Great War poet was killed on the 4th of November 1918, seven days

before the armistice.

He was 25.

By then you'd only published five poems, but in the next decade she became seen as

the British War poet, his anthem for doomed youth, strange meeting, dulce ed decorumist

among those that became inseparable from our memory of the First World War.

And while his best known for his poetry of the trenches and the futility of war, he's

let us show a more complex side, someone who took pride in his status as an officer and

in being a soldier.

In mid to discuss Wilbur Donar, Jane Potter, reader in the School of Art at Oxford Brooks University,

Fran Brietton, Professor of Modern Purtred, Queen's University of Belfast, and Guy Cuthberton,

Professor of British Literature and Culture at Liverpool Hope University.

Guy, what should we know about Owen's early life?

Wolfardo In was a Schroppshalard by birth born in Osestree in 1893.

And the name Owen of course is a Welsh one and he's sometimes referred to having Welsh

ancestors, but if they did exist they were a long way back.

He lived in Osestree with his maternal grandparents, his mother was from Osestree and he lived there

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