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Choose a period of transitions of Owens work and analyse
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Choose a period of transitions of Owens work and analyse. Wilfred Owen was born in 1893 Oswestry, Shropshire. He was educated at Birkenhead Institute and Shrewsbury Technical College. He was deeply attached to his mother (Susan Shaw) and she was probably the most important person in his short life. She was the one who introduced him to the arts as she herself was also educated in music and painting .A great deal of his letters were addressed to her, and the reverence to the love he felt for her is evident. In 1911 he became lay assistant to the vicar of Dunsden near Reading in order to establish whether he had a vocation for the Anglican priesthood. However this left him disillusioned with both the clerical life and evangelised type of Christianity. He was to leave here in 1913. From the age of nineteen Owen wanted to be a poet and...
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