Two years later, Poems of Wilfred Owen (1920) was published. At the hospital, Owen wrote many of his most famous poems, including “Dulce et Decorum Est” and “Anthem for Doomed Youth.” He was one of the first poets to depict the horrifying realities of war, instead of writing glorified, nationalistic poems.īut the next year, he went back to fight, and he was killed in battle at the age of 25. There he met another soldier diagnosed with shell shock, Siegfried Sassoon, who was an established poet and mentored Owen. In 1917, he was wounded, diagnosed with shell shock, and sent to a hospital to recuperate. He enlisted to fight in World War I, and he became a lieutenant. ![]() He started writing poems as a boy, and he was good at literature and science, but he didn’t do well enough on his exams to get a scholarship at a university. But then his grandpa died, and it turned out that the old man was broke, and the family had to leave and move into working-class lodgings in an industrial town. When he was young, his family was well-off, living in a house owned by his grandfather, a prominent citizen. It’s the birthday of poet Wilfred Owen, born in Shropshire, England (1893). Those more sincere authors whose knowledge of ancient languages was profound were never included as required reading, and scholarship was based largely upon the acceptance of a sterile materialism.” So he translated and interpreted the texts himself, and wrote his magnum opus. … Translations of classical authors could differ greatly, but in most cases the noblest thoughts were eliminated or denigrated. ![]() He wrote: “I felt strongly moved to explore the problems of humanity, its origin and destiny, and I spent a number of quiet hours in the New York Public Library tracing the confused course of civilization. It took him six years to write the book, and during that period he worked for a while on Wall Street, which he hated. He wrote quite a few books, and he is most famous for The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabalistic, and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy (1928). ![]() He was fascinated by the occult and he traveled all over lecturing. It’s the birthday of writer Manly Hall, born in Peterborough, Ontario (1901).
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