The first of these three great war poets was Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon was born on September 8th, 1886, at Weirleigh, in Kent, England. Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon was the second son of Alfred and Theresa Sassoon. Already, at the age of five, Sassoon started to experience some hardships when his parents separated. Sassoon went to college at Marlborough College for a year, he then transferred to Claire College in Cambridge. Wh

Owen had written most of his poetry during times of war and in the hospital bed in England. Almost all of Owen’s poems are about his hard experiences in the war. One fan of Owen’s work says:

World War I was the first major war in which virtually every country took part. Because of the large number of countries involved in this war, there were many casualties by the time everything returned to normal. This war had a long lasting impact on just about everything. During the four years of the war (1914-1918) the number of known dead has been placed at approximately 10,000,000 and about 20,000,000 wounded.(Langer) Although the numbers of injured and killed were huge during the war, there was beneficial side effect that the war produced, the poetry of several people from 1914 to 1918. Three of the great World War I poets were Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, and Wilfred Owen. Through their wartime experiences, these three men wrote what is considered to be the best war poetry of all time.

The second great poet of World War I was a man named Wilfred Owen. Owen was born in 1893, in Plas Wilmot, Oswestry, Shropshire. He was the eldest of four children. Owen’s family was a middle-class, impoverished, provincial family. As a child, Owen did not have any close friends and was thus very lonely. In 1907, Owen attended school at Shrewsbury Technical School as a day student. At the age of twenty-two, Owen became a teacher in Europe. While continuing his teaching duties, Owen visited a hospital and became acquainted with many of the wounded soldiers. These visits deeply effected Owen and he finally decided to enlist in the army. Said Owen of his decision to enlist:

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