90 Years Later: Searching for Wilfred Owen

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  11.17.08 | 11:14 AM ET

imagePhoto by Jim Linwood via Flickr (Creative Commons)

The 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War just passed, and The Times of London’s travel section marked the occasion with a powerful essay by Chris Haslam, who traveled around France in the footsteps of war poet Wilfred Owen. Haslam’s search covers several battlefields, and ends at the forest cottage where Owen spent his last night.

The property will be opened to the public as a museum/monument in 2009.

Owen, best known for his poems Dulce et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth, was killed in action just a few days before Armistice was declared on November 11, 1918.

Tags: Poetry, War, Europe, France, Literary Travel

Eva Holland is a contributor to the World Hum blog. She is also a contributing editor at the Matador Network and at Not Coming to a Theater Near You, and a regular contributor to the Ottawa Citizen. Based in Ottawa, Canada, she loves to write about travel, history, sports, and culture high or low.


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