title: The Poems of Wilfred Owen
author:  Wilfred Owen 
description: Of all the work bequeathed to us by that generation of young men who fought in the trenches, Owen's is the most remarkable for its breadth of sympathy and its understanding of human suffering and tenderness, at home and on the battlefield.
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  # TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  [Acknowledgements](../Text/ack.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Main Dates of Wilfred Owen’s life](../Text/fm.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Introduction](../Text/int.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Wilfred Owen’s Preface](../Text/pre.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [_War Poems_](../Text/p01.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Strange Meeting](../Text/p01-ch01.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Insensibility](../Text/p01-ch02.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Apologia Pro Poemate Meo](../Text/p01-ch03.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Greater Love](../Text/p01-ch04.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [The Parable of the Old Man and the Young](../Text/p01-ch05.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Arms and the Boy](../Text/p01-ch06.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Anthem for Doomed Youth](../Text/p01-ch07.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [The Send-Off](../Text/p01-ch08.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Exposure](../Text/p01-ch09.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [The Show](../Text/p01-ch10.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Spring Offensive](../Text/p01-ch11.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Dulce et Decorum Est](../Text/p01-ch12.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Asleep](../Text/p01-ch13.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Futility](../Text/p01-ch14.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [The Last Laugh](../Text/