who is wilfrid owen
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 â 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War.is great friend, the poet Siegfried Sassoon, later had a profound effect on Owen's poetic voice, and Owen's most famous poems (Dulce et Decorum est and Anthem for Doomed Youth) show direct results of Sassoon's influence. Manuscript copies of the poems survive, annotated in Sassoon's handwriting.