Wilfred Owen
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 107 years ago |
| Date of birth | March 18,1893 |
| Zodiac sign | Pisces |
| Born | Oswestry |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | November 4,1918 |
| Died | Sambre-Oise Canal |
| France | |
| Books | Poems of Wilfred Owen |
| Dulce et Decorum est | |
| Poems by Wilfred Owen | |
| The poems | |
| Height | 165 (cm) |
| Periods | First World War |
| Siblings | Harold Owen |
| Mary Millard Owen | |
| Colin Owen | |
| Parents | Thomas Owen |
| Harriet Susan Shaw | |
| Poems | Dulce et Decorum est |
| Futility | |
| Poems by Wilfred Owen | |
| Strange Meeting | |
| Genres | War Poetry |
| Awards | Military Cross |
| Influences | Siegfried Sassoon |
| John Keats | |
| Horace | |
| William Wordsworth | |
| Education | Wakeman School |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 413912 |
Wilfred Owen Life story
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War.
Michelle Donelan: New culture secretary unafraid to take on culture wars and BBC
... " about the " cultural vandalism" of award-winning books being " quietly scrubbed" from university reading lists because of their challenging content, and poets Philip Larkin and Wilfred Owen s removal from a GCSE syllabus in an attempt to make it more diverse...
Wilfred Owen and Philip Larkin GCSE removal 'cultural vandalism'
...Removing poems by Philip Larkin and Wilfred Owen from a GCSE course has been described as " cultural vandalism" by the education secretary...
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... In Shrewsbury, for example, a petition suggests that a statue of the British colonial general Clive of India could be replaced by other personalities from the Region, such as the poet Wilfred Owen or novelist Mary Webb...
Wilfred Owen and Philip Larkin GCSE removal 'cultural vandalism'
Removing poems by Philip Larkin and Wilfred Owen from a GCSE course has been described as " cultural vandalism" by the education secretary.
Nadhim Zahawi criticised the decision by exam board OCR and promised he would be speaking to its bosses.
The examining body said it made The Changes to the GCSE Poetry Anthology to offer more diversity.
" Larkin and Owen are two of our finest poets, " The Conservative MP for Stratford-upon-Avon tweeted.
" Removing their work from the curriculum is cultural vandalism. I will be speaking to The Exam board to make this clear. "
, is widely regarded As One of Britain's finest 20Th Century poets.
He took up The Position of librarian at the University of Hull in 1955 and, in the same year, published his acclaimed collection The Less Deceived.
While is known for his poems recording The Horrors of trench warfare during World War One.
They include Dulce Et Decorum Est, Anthem for Doomed Youth and Strange Meeting .
The Changes , first reported by The Times , are aimed at " offering more poems by contemporary and established poets of colour" OCR said.
It added the new poets would also include disabled and LGBT voices.
Among the new names are British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus and Ukrainian-American poet Ilya Kaminsky .
The board added The Poems being removed would have largely already been studied and assessed.
The Bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites.Mr Zahawi said his knowledge of the English Language had been improved as a teenager through Larkin's poems.
" We must not deny future students the chance to make a similarly powerful connection with a great British author, " He Said .
Source of news: bbc.com
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