So why, after all these years, do we see Wilfred Owen’s poetry as a defining image of World War One? A select group of well-educated soldier officers, including Wilfred Owen, came to view the ...

Siegfried Sassoon’s protesting voice had been silenced, but his poetry remained clear and forceful. In 1918 he wrote, “You smug faced crowds with kindling eye, who cheer when soldier lads ...