Michael Korda writes a beautiful book in remembrance of the World War I poets whose work he loved. We hope you’re enjoying ...

The work of war poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke ... wrote possibly one of the most famous pieces of war poetry, In Flanders Fields, while observing the scenes outside a ...

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

William Orpen’s paintings from the Western Front are as powerful and poignant as the war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried ...

Getty Images Siegfried Sassoon was already known for his poetry when he was sent to Craiglockhart Officially Sassoon, a decorated war hero renowned for his bravery on the Western Front ...

Jeremy Paxman explores the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon, mental health problems suffered by soldiers in the First World War, shell shock and the low morale caused by the huge British death toll.

Peter Daborn said it was a "poignant" time to market the house in Oswestry The birthplace of war poet Wilfred Owen has gone ...

What exactly constitutes a poem? To some contemporary writers, one might consider a shopping list of milk, eggs, oats and tea a form of poetry. Classicists will look towards narrative epics by the ...

Last week I caught a mid-morning train from Cambridge to London and noticed something odd. I was the only person in the ...

(Courtesy Ted Ricketts) Ricketts also was moved by Siegfried Sassoon’s “Suicide in the Trenches,” written in response to World War I ... These poems are poignant and powerful.” ...

and celebrated in his day by poets as various as Siegfried Sassoon and John Ashbery, his poems have long intrigued readers with their formal experiments, Baroque influences, and intellectual puzzles.

They still do flourish: that poem became a sensation and the poppy became a symbol of remembrance. From the end of October, poppies—sold by the Royal British Legion ( rbl) to raise money for veterans ...