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Wilfred Owen

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Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. [1]

144 relations: Alternate history, Andrew Motion, Anthem for Doomed Youth, Anthems for Doomed Youth, Archbishop of Canterbury, Armistice Day, Armistice of 11 November 1918, Arnold Bennett, Artists Rifles, Assonance, At a Calvary near the Ancre, Battle of the Sambre (1918), Benjamin Britten, Berlitz Corporation, Bible, Birkenhead, Birkenhead Woodside railway station, Blue plaque, Bordeaux, Botany, British undergraduate degree classification, Broxton, Cheshire, Bullets and Daffodils, C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Central Council of Church Bell Ringers, Chemical weapons in World War I, Cheshire, Church of England, Clifton Hotel (England), Commonwealth, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Coventry Cathedral, Craiglockhart Hydropathic, Crucifixion, Daniel Day-Lewis, Derek Jarman, Dulce et Decorum est, Dunsden Green, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University, Edith Sitwell, Edmund Blunden, Edward Carpenter, Epistolary novel, Essex, Evangelicalism, Faber and Faber, France, Fredonia, New York, Friendly fire, ..., Futility (poem), Gailly, Glen Art, Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie, Harold Owen, Harry Ransom Center, Harry Turtledove, Homosexuality, Hope Chest: The Fredonia Recordings 1982–1983, Human Conflict Number Five, Insensibility, Jason Isaacs, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Jedi Mind Tricks, Jesus, John Keats, John Peel, Jon Stallworthy, Joncourt, Laurent Tailhade, Manchester Regiment, Marcel Proust, Mary Ann Shaffer, Matriculation, Military Cross, Miners (poem), New Statesman, Not About Heroes, Officers' Training Corps, Old English, Ors, Osbert Sitwell, Oscar Wilde, Oswestry, Pararhyme, Pat Barker, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Plas Wilmot, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Poets' Corner, Psychoanalysis, Rabindranath Tagore, Reading, Berkshire, Realism (arts), Regeneration (1997 film), Regeneration (novel), Ripon, Ripon Cathedral, Robbie Ross, Robert Graves, Romantic poetry, Rowan Williams, Rupert Brooke, Sacheverell Sitwell, Sambre–Oise Canal, Samuel Barnett (actor), Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Second lieutenant, Shell shock, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Siegfried Sassoon, Sigmund Freud, Simon Patterson (artist), Soldier's Dream, Southern Victory, Spring Offensive (poem), Stephen MacDonald, Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind, Strange Meeting (poem), Stuart Bunce, The Ghost Road, The Great War: Walk in Hell, The Hydra, The Libertines, The London Gazette, The Parable of the Old Men and the Young, Trench warfare, Turner Prize, Tynecastle High School, University of London, University of Oxford, University of Reading, University of Texas at Austin, Violent by Design, Virginia Astley, Wakeman School, War poet, War Requiem, Westminster Abbey, Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale, Wilfrid, World War I, 10,000 Maniacs. Expand index (94 more) »

Alternate history

Alternate history or alternative history (Commonwealth English), sometimes abbreviated as AH, is a genre of fiction consisting of stories in which one or more historical events occur differently.

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Andrew Motion

Sir Andrew Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.

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Anthem for Doomed Youth

"Anthem for Doomed Youth" is a well-known poem written in 1917 by Wilfred Owen.

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Anthems for Doomed Youth

Anthems for Doomed Youth is the third studio album by English garage rock band The Libertines, released on 11 September 2015.

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Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Armistice Day

Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918.

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Armistice of 11 November 1918

The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their last opponent, Germany.

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Arnold Bennett

Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English writer.

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Artists Rifles

The Artists Rifles is a regiment of the British Army Reserve.

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Assonance

Assonance is a resemblance in the sounds of words or syllables either between their vowels (e.g., meat, bean) or between their consonants (e.g., keep, cape).

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At a Calvary near the Ancre

"At a Calvary near the Ancre" is a poem by Wilfred Owen.

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Battle of the Sambre (1918)

The Second Battle of the Sambre (4 November 1918) (which included the Second Battle of Guise (2ème Bataille de Guise) and the Battle of Thiérache (Bataille de Thiérache) was part of the final European Allied offensives of World War I.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

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Berlitz Corporation

Berlitz Corporation is a global leadership training and language education company with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.

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Birkenhead

Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England.

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Birkenhead Woodside railway station

Birkenhead Woodside was a railway station at Woodside, in Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire.

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Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Occitan: Bordèu) is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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British undergraduate degree classification

The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading structure for undergraduate degrees (bachelor's degrees and integrated master's degrees) in the United Kingdom.

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Broxton, Cheshire

Broxton is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Bullets and Daffodils

Bullets and Daffodils is a musical about the life of the war poet Wilfred Owen, created by musician and composer Dean Johnson and directed by Dean Sullivan.

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C. K. Scott Moncrieff

Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, (25 September 1889 – 28 February 1930) was a Scottish writer, most famous for his English translation of most of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, which he published under the Shakespearean title Remembrance of Things Past.

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Central Council of Church Bell Ringers

The Central Council of Church Bell Ringers (CCCBR) is an organisation founded in 1891 which represents ringers of church bells in the English style.

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Chemical weapons in World War I

The use of toxic chemicals as weapons dates back thousands of years, but the first large scale use of chemical weapons was during World War I. They were primarily used to demoralize, injure, and kill entrenched defenders, against whom the indiscriminate and generally very slow-moving or static nature of gas clouds would be most effective.

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Clifton Hotel (England)

The Clifton Hotel is a small, late Victorian hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.

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Commonwealth

A commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good.

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars.

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Coventry Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of St Michael, commonly known as Coventry Cathedral, is the seat of the Bishop of Coventry and the Diocese of Coventry, in Coventry, West Midlands, England.

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Craiglockhart Hydropathic

Craiglockhart Hydropathic, now a part of Edinburgh Napier University and known as Craiglockhart Campus, is a building with surrounding grounds in Craiglockhart, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Crucifixion

Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden beam and left to hang for several days until eventual death from exhaustion and asphyxiation.

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Daniel Day-Lewis

Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is a retired English actor who holds both British and Irish citizenship.

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Derek Jarman

Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author.

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Dulce et Decorum est

"Dulce et Decorum est" (read here) is a poem written by Wilfred Owen during World War I, and published posthumously in 1920.

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Dunsden Green

Dunsden Green or Dunsden is a village in the civil parish of Eye & Dunsden in the South Oxfordshire ward of Sonning Common, about northeast of Reading, Berkshire.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edinburgh Napier University

Edinburgh Napier University is a public university in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Edith Sitwell

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells.

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Edmund Blunden

Edmund Charles Blunden, CBE, MC (1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974) was an English poet, author and critic.

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Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English socialist poet, philosopher, anthologist, and early activist for rights for homosexuals.

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Epistolary novel

An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents.

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Essex

Essex is a county in the East of England.

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Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, crossdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity which maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement.

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Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the United Kingdom.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Fredonia, New York

Fredonia is a village in Chautauqua County, New York, United States.

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Friendly fire

Friendly fire is an attack by a military force on non-enemy, own, allied or neutral, forces while attempting to attack the enemy, either by misidentifying the target as hostile, or due to errors or inaccuracy.

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Futility (poem)

"Futility" is a poem written by Wilfred Owen, one of the most renowned poets of World War I. The poem was written in May 1918 and published as no.

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Gailly

Gailly is a French surname that may refer to.

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Glen Art

Glen Art is a Scottish charity helping those from a military background return to civilian life.

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Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie

Alexander Patrick Greysteil Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie, (born in Dublin 26 November 1939), usually known as Grey Gowrie, is a Scottish hereditary peer.

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Harold Owen

Harold Owen (5 September 1897 - 26 November 1971) was the younger brother and biographer of the English poet and soldier, Wilfred Owen.

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Harry Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center is an archive, library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the United States and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities.

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Harry Turtledove

Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949) is an American novelist, best known for his work in the genres of alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Hope Chest: The Fredonia Recordings 1982–1983

Hope Chest: The Fredonia Recordings 1982-1983, also known as just Hope Chest, is a 1990 album by 10,000 Maniacs.

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Human Conflict Number Five

Human Conflict Number Five was the debut EP by 10,000 Maniacs.

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Insensibility

"Insensibility" is a poem written by Wilfred Owen during the First World War which explores the effect of warfare on soldiers, and the long- and short-term psychological effects that it has on them.

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Jason Isaacs

Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is an English actor and voice actor.

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Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Jean Moorcroft Wilson (born 3 October 1941) is a British academic and writer, best known as a biographer and critic of First World War poets and poetry.

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Jedi Mind Tricks

Jedi Mind Tricks (JMT) is an underground hip hop group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded by two high school friends, rapper Vinnie Paz (Vincenzo Luvineri) and producer Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind (Kevin Baldwin).

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Jesus

Jesus, also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

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John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet.

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John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.

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Jon Stallworthy

Jon (Howie) Stallworthy (18 January 1935 – 19 November 2014) FBA FRSL was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford.

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Joncourt

Joncourt is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Laurent Tailhade

Laurent Tailhade (16 April 1854 – 2 November 1919) was a French satirical poet, anarchist polemicist, essayist, and translator, active in Paris in the 1890s and early 1900s.

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Manchester Regiment

The Manchester Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1958.

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Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922), known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier rendered as Remembrance of Things Past), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.

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Mary Ann Shaffer

Mary Ann Shaffer (December 13, 1934 – February 16, 2008) was an American writer, editor, librarian, and a bookshop worker.

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Matriculation

Matriculation is the formal process of entering a university, or of becoming eligible to enter by fulfilling certain academic requirements such as a matriculation examination.

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Military Cross

The Military Cross (MC) is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and used to be awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries.

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Miners (poem)

"Miners" is a poem by Wilfred Owen.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London.

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Not About Heroes

Not About Heroes is a drama by Stephen MacDonald about the real-life relationship between the poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon first performed in 1982 at the Edinburgh Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Officers' Training Corps

The Officers' Training Corps (OTC), more fully called the University Officers' Training Corps (UOTC), are military leadership training units similar to a university club but operated by the British Army.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Ors

Ors is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

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Osbert Sitwell

Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet (6 December 1892 – 4 May 1969) was an English writer.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Oswestry

Oswestry (Croesoswallt) is a large market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, close to the Welsh border.

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Pararhyme

Pararhyme is a half-rhyme in which there is vowel variation within the same consonant pattern.

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Pat Barker

Patricia Mary W. Barker, CBE, FRSL (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, and one of the most influential.

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Plas Wilmot

Plas Wilmot (Welsh: Wilmot Hall) is a substantial suburban villa near Oswestry in the United Kingdom.

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Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom

The British Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Prime Minister.

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Poets' Corner

Poets' Corner is the name traditionally given to a section of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey because of the high number of poets, playwrights, and writers buried and commemorated there.

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Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental-health disorders.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS, also written Ravīndranātha Ṭhākura (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Reading, Berkshire

Reading is a large, historically important minster town in Berkshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Realism (arts)

Realism, sometimes called naturalism, in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements.

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Regeneration (1997 film)

Regeneration is a 1997 British film, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Pat Barker.

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Regeneration (novel)

Regeneration is a historical and anti-war novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1991.

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Ripon

Ripon is a cathedral city in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England.

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Ripon Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Wilfrid, commonly known as Ripon Cathedral, is a cathedral in the North Yorkshire city of Ripon.

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Robbie Ross

Robert Baldwin Ross (25 May 18695 October 1918) was a Canadian journalist, art critic and art dealer, best known for his relationship with Oscar Wilde, to whom he was a devoted friend, lover and literary executor.

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Robert Graves

Robert Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985), also known as Robert von Ranke Graves, was an English poet, historical novelist, critic, and classicist.

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Romantic poetry

Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century.

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Rowan Williams

Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth (born 14 June 1950) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet.

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Rupert Brooke

Rupert Chawner Brooke (middle name sometimes given as "Chaucer;" 3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915The date of Brooke's death and burial under the Julian calendar that applied in Greece at the time was 10 April. The Julian calendar was 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar.) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier.” He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England.”.

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Sacheverell Sitwell

Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet (15 November 1897 – 1 October 1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque.

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Sambre–Oise Canal

The Canal de la Sambre à l'Oise is a canal in northern France.

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Samuel Barnett (actor)

Samuel Barnett (born 25 April 1980) is an English actor.

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Scarborough, North Yorkshire

Scarborough is a town on the North Sea coast of North Yorkshire, England.

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Second lieutenant

Second lieutenant (called lieutenant in some countries) is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces, comparable to NATO OF-1b rank.

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Shell shock

Shell shock is a term coined in World War I to describe the type of posttraumatic stress disorder many soldiers were afflicted with during the war (before PTSD itself was a term).

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Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire, England.

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Shropshire

Shropshire (alternatively Salop; abbreviated, in print only, Shrops; demonym Salopian) is a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Wales to the west, Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, and Worcestershire and Herefordshire to the south.

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Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier.

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

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Simon Patterson (artist)

Simon Patterson (born 1967) is an English artist and was born in Leatherhead, Surrey.

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Soldier's Dream

Soldier's Dream is a poem written by English war poet Wilfred Owen.

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Southern Victory

The Southern Victory series or Timeline-191 are fan names given to a series of eleven alternate history novels by author Harry Turtledove, beginning with How Few Remain (1997) and published over a decade.

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Spring Offensive (poem)

"Spring Offensive" is a poem by Wilfred Owen.

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Stephen MacDonald

Stephen MacDonald (5 May 1933 – 12 August 2009) was a British actor, director and dramatist.

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Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind

Kevin Baldwin, better known by his stage name as Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind, is an American hip hop producer, DJ, and member of the underground hip hop group Jedi Mind Tricks.

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Strange Meeting (poem)

"Strange Meeting" is a poem by Wilfred Owen.

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Stuart Bunce

Stuart Alexander Bunce (born 21 October 1971) is an English actor who is best known for his portrayal of the First World War poet Wilfred Owen in the film Regeneration directed by Gillies MacKinnon.

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The Ghost Road

The Ghost Road is a war novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1995 and winner of the Booker Prize.

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The Great War: Walk in Hell

The Great War: Walk in Hell is the second book in the Great War series of alternate history books by Harry Turtledove.

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The Hydra

The Hydra was a magazine produced by the patients of the Craiglockhart War Hospital, noteworthy for having been edited at one time by Wilfred Owen, and for including poems by Siegfried Sassoon.

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The Libertines

The Libertines are an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât (vocals/guitar) and Pete Doherty (vocals/guitar).

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The London Gazette

The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published.

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The Parable of the Old Men and the Young

"The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" is a poem by Wilfred Owen that compares the ascent of Abraham to Mount Moriah and his near-sacrifice of Isaac there with the start of World War I. It had first been published by Siegfried Sassoon in 1920 with the title "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young", without the last line: "And half the seed of Europe, one by one".

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Trench warfare

Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of military trenches, in which troops are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery.

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Turner Prize

The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist.

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Tynecastle High School

Tynecastle High School is a secondary school in south west Edinburgh, Scotland.

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University of London

The University of London (abbreviated as Lond. or more rarely Londin. in post-nominals) is a collegiate and a federal research university located in London, England.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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University of Reading

The University of Reading is a public university located in Reading, Berkshire, England.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.

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Violent by Design

Violent by Design is the second album by underground hip hop group Jedi Mind Tricks.

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Virginia Astley

Virginia Astley (born 26 September 1959) is an English singer-songwriter most active during the 1980s and 1990s.

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Wakeman School

The Wakeman School and Arts College (formerly Shrewsbury Technical School) was a co-educational comprehensive school located in Shrewsbury, the county town of Shropshire, England.

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War poet

A war poet is a poet who participates in a war and writes about his experiences, or a non-combatant who write poems about war.

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War Requiem

The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a large-scale, non-liturgical setting of the Requiem composed by Benjamin Britten mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962.

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.

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Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale

Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale was a 1-hour 2007 BBC documentary on the life of the First World War poet Wilfred Owen.

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Wilfrid

Wilfrid (c. 633 – c. 709) was an English bishop and saint.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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10,000 Maniacs

10,000 Maniacs is an American alternative rock band that was founded in 1981.

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References

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