The Hibberd book is brilliant. Wilfred seems to have been in love with Sassoon (telling him so in the one letter which survives - Sassoon destroyed other letters to him from WO, for which Wilfred's mother was grateful). and at least one of WO's poems concerns rent boys.
I have a WWI Manchester Regiment cap badge on my computer cart, as that was Wilfred's regiment.
I love Wilfred Owen's poetry - I remember being introduced to them at school and falling under the spell of his words. Anthem for Doomed Youth is one of the very few poems I know by heart.
If you want a fictional insight into Wilfred Owen's life, Pat Barker wrote a magnificent novel called Regeneration based around his stay at the Craiglockhart hospital.
I know about that novel, actually if I remember well, I discovered Wilfred Owen after an author (I think Charlie) included Regeneration in her list of favorite books
that period in time is really tragic, and everything about it always moved me, but above all the lives of these young men, most of them cut down so soon and so young
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I have a WWI Manchester Regiment cap badge on my computer cart, as that was Wilfred's regiment.
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If you want a fictional insight into Wilfred Owen's life, Pat Barker wrote a magnificent novel called Regeneration based around his stay at the Craiglockhart hospital.
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