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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 3,138,807 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Wilfred Owen is the 2,988th most popular writer (up from 3,074th in 2019), the 2,183rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,291st in 2019) and the 248th most popular British Writer.

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  • 44

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  • 2.30

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  • 5.46

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Notable Works

Collected poems
World War, 1914-1918, Poetry
1963
Poems
Accessible book, English Manuscripts, English War poetry
1920
Wheels
Wheels, Roues
1967
The poems of Wilfred Owen
Owen, Wilfred : Poems, Wilfred Owen
1955
War poems and others
World War, 1914-1918, Poetry, English War poetry
1973
Toll roads and the problem of highway modernization
Toll roads
1951

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wilfred Owen ranks 2,988 out of 7,302. Before him are Laura Bridgman, David Foster Wallace, Tariq Ali, Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Auguste Barbier, and Miklós Radnóti. After him are Jim Rohn, Juan Ruiz, Miguel Torga, Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, Esaias Tegnér, and Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Wilfred Owen ranks 137. Before him are Ben Hecht, Johannes Dieckmann, Archduke Leo Karl of Austria, Jorge Guillén, Charlotte Bühler, and Louise Weiss. After him are Edna Parker, Heinrich George, Fatima Jinnah, Vicente Huidobro, Freya Stark, and Vera Kholodnaya. Among people deceased in 1918, Wilfred Owen ranks 108. Before him are Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt, Arthur Cravan, Charles Wolf, Carl Peters, Meshadi Azizbekov, and Ivan Puluj. After him are Károly Khuen-Héderváry, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, Malak Hifni Nasif, William Hope Hodgson, George Lawrence Price, and Albert Ballin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Wilfred Owen ranks 2,183 out of 8,785. Before him are Michael Powell (1905), Jerry Springer (1944), Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884), Eric Temple Bell (1883), Michael Adams (1971), and Gerald of Wales (1146). After him are Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (1967), Bernard Williams (1929), John Miles (1949), John Cleland (1709), John Paul Jones (1747), and Lytton Strachey (1880).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Wilfred Owen ranks 248. Before him are David Gemmell (1948), Charles Kingsley (1819), Thomas Otway (1652), Angela Carter (1940), Robert Burton (1577), and Richard Baxter (1615). After him are John Cleland (1709), Lytton Strachey (1880), Caroline Graham (1931), Michael Jackson (1942), Thor Vilhjálmsson (1925), and Prince Henri of Orléans (1867).

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