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Historical person
1893–1918
Wilfred Owen was a British soldier and poet whose work described the physical horror, pity and psychological damage of the First World War. Treated for shell shock at Craiglockhart, where he met Siegfried Sassoon, he returned to the front and was killed one week before the Armistice.
In Pat Barker’s Regeneration, at Craiglockhart, Sassoon meets Wilfred Owen and helps the younger poet revise work that will become central to British war poetry. In Pat Barker’s The Ghost Road, in the closing months of 1918, Billy Prior is passed fit and returns to France with Wilfred Owen as the Allied armies begin their final advance.
Series
The Regeneration Trilogy follows soldiers, doctors, poets and civilians during the final two years of the First World War. Its central relationship is between the neurologist and army psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers and the fictional working-class officer Billy Prior, while Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves and…
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