"The majority of Wilfred Owen's poetry was written over the course of about one year, between August 1917 and September 1918. A fan of the romantic poets Keats and Shelley, Owen had been interested in the subject for years but it was his time recovering from shell shock at the Craiglockhart War Hospital, in Edinburgh, where he met Sassoon, that inspired poems such as Dulce et Decorum Est ( It is Sweet and Proper) and Anthem for Doomed Youth."
"Owen and Sassoon are believed to have enjoyed a romance. They also worked on poetry together, influencing each other. The former's work is often considered homoerotic. He died in 1918 - just one week the armistice, which brought the fighting to an end, was signed. He was 25. His mother was notified by telegram as bells rang out across Britain on 11 November, to mark the coming of peace."
"Unlike Owen, Sassoon was a published poet before the two met. After writing the controversial letter Finished With the War: A Soldier's Declaration, in which he called the fighting "evil and unjust," Sassoon was sent to Craiglockhart by the authorities who deemed him unfit for service rather than stage a court-martial which would have caught the public's attention given his fame. Meeting Owen there, he encouraged his younger counterpart to write more realistically rather than romantically."
Remembrance Day on 11 November honors those who fell in the First World War and subsequent conflicts and prompts reflection on commemorative symbols such as the red poppy. The day also recalls gay poets of the doomed generation, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Rupert Brooke. Wilfred Owen produced most of his poetry between August 1917 and September 1918, influenced by Keats and Shelley and by recovery from shell shock at Craiglockhart, where he met Sassoon. Owen wrote Dulce et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth, collaborated and had a romantic relationship with Sassoon, and died in 1918, aged 25.
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