Famous Shropshire Writers

Wilfred Owen is regarded by many as the greatest poet of World War One. His poems about the experience of war were honest and did not in any way cover up the gruesome reality of what soldiers on the front line experienced. Poems such as “Dulce et Decorum est”, “Anthem for the doomed youth” and “Spring Offensive” are some of the most famous. People studying GCSE English Literature will recognise that it was Wilfred Owen who wrote the powerful poem “Exposure” which is studied in the poetry section of the course (found in the power and conflict section of the anthology.) What a lot of people do not know is that Shropshire was the birth place of Wilfred Owen.