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Wilfred Owen

1893 - 1918

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Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon and stood in contrast to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilfred Owen has received more than 2,993,598 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Wilfred Owen is the 3,085th most popular writer (down from 2,549th in 2019), the 2,297th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,937th in 2019) and the 267th most popular British Writer.

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  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.16

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  • 5.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wilfred Owen ranks 3,085 out of 5,755Before him are John Stott, Edvard Radzinsky, Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, René Daumal, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, and Sergey Solovyov. After him are Dmitry Pisarev, John Evelyn, Ricarda Huch, Delmira Agustini, Gregory Benford, and Licinius Macer Calvus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Wilfred Owen ranks 140Before him are Ralph Linton, José María Velasco Ibarra, Johannes Dieckmann, Huey Long, Cedric Hardwicke, and Jorge Guillén. After him are Anthony Berkeley Cox, Georges Florovsky, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Gyula Breyer, Lucien Tesnière, and Edna Parker. Among people deceased in 1918, Wilfred Owen ranks 108Before him are Carl Peters, Édouard Chavannes, Konstantin Jireček, Robbie Ross, George Mary Searle, and Marianne Cope. After him are Charles Wolf, Albert Ballin, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, William Hope Hodgson, Ali Aaltonen, and Ulisse Dini.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Wilfred Owen ranks 2,297 out of 7,765Before him are Ian Richardson (1934), Edward Arthur Milne (1896), Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg (1889), John Stott (1921), Bernard Fox (1927), and Kevin Ayers (1944). After him are Robert Stevenson (1905), John Evelyn (1620), Christabel Pankhurst (1880), Paul Smith (1946), Richard Madden (1986), and Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Wilfred Owen ranks 267Before him are William Smith (1813), Dodie Smith (1896), Richard Hammond (1969), Jack Higgins (1929), Winston Graham (1908), and John Stott (1921). After him are John Evelyn (1620), Charles Kingsley (1819), Branwell Brontë (1817), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Lytton Strachey (1880), and Ford Madox Ford (1873).