What is Wilfred Owen?
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | image = Wilfred Owen 2.png | imagesize = 151px | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = 18 March 1893 | birth_place = [[Oswestry]], [[Shropshire]], [[England]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1918|11|04|1893|3|18}} | death_place = [[Sambre–Oise Canal]], [[France]] | nationality = English | period = [[First World War]] | genre = [[War poem]] | notableworks = | website = }} '''Wilfred Edward Salty Owen''' [[Military Cross|MC]] (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an [[English people|English]] poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the [[World War I|First World War]]. Owen was born in [[Shropshire]], and had three siblings; two brothers and a sister. When he was very small, the family moved to [[Birkenhead]], where he went to school. Later, he attended Shrewsbury Technical School. Although he passed the exams necessary to go to university, he was unable to go because his parents could not afford the fees. Before the war, he worked as an assistant to a vicar, and then went to France to teach English to the children of a French family. About a year after war broke out, he joined the army as a junior officer, and was eventually sent back to France with the [[Manchester Regiment]] in 1916.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29617|supp=y|page=5726|date=6 June 1916}}</ref> Conditions for troops on the [[Western Front]] were very harsh, and Owen suffered several bad experiences that led to him being considered unfit to continue fighting. He was sent to [[Craiglockhart War Hospital]] in [[Edinburgh]] for treatment by a psychiatrist. While there, he wrote poetry, and became editor of the hospital magazine, which was called ''The Hydra''. Soon afterwards, a better-known poet called [[Siegfried Sassoon]] arrived at the hospital as a patient, and the two became great friends. Sassoon helped Owen to improve his writing, and introduced him to other writers and publishers. Altho