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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1918.
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"Dulce et Decorum est" is a poem written by Wilfred Owen during World War I, and published posthumously in 1920. Its Latin title is from a verse written by the Roman poet Horace: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. In English, this means "it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country". The poem is one of Owen's most renowned works; it is known for its horrific imagery and its condemnation of war. It was drafted at Craiglockhart in the first half of October 1917 and later revised, probably at Scarborough, but possibly at Ripon, between January and March 1918. The earliest known manuscript is dated 8 October 1917 and is addressed to the poet's mother, Susan Owen, with the note "Here is a gas poem done yesterday ."
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Strange Meetings: The Lives of the Poets of the Great War is a non-fiction book by Harry Ricketts, first published by Chatto & Windus in 2010. The book is a kind of collective biography of the major poets of World War I, in the form of documented or speculated meetings between the individual poets, covering a period between 1914 and 1964. The poets whose careers are described include Vera Brittain, Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Ivor Gurney, David Jones, Robert Nichols, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon and Edward Thomas. The title of the book is a variation on the title of "Strange Meeting", a poem by Wilfred Owen, which itself is taken from a phrase in Shelley's The Revolt of Islam.
Soldier's Dream is a poem written by English war poet Wilfred Owen. It was written in October 1917 in Craiglockhart, a suburb in the south-west of Edinburgh (Scotland), while the author was recovering from shell shock in the trenches, inflicted during World War I. The poet died one week before the Armistice of Compiègne, which ended the conflict on the Western Front.
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References
- ↑ "A Terre". Wilfred Owen Association. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
- ↑ Wilfred Owen (1990). The Poems of Wilfred Owen. Chatto & Windus. pp. 188–. ISBN 978-0-7011-3661-1.
- ↑ "from The Princess: Tears, Idle Tears". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
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