Wilfried Owen

• Introduced in Chapter 8, Wilfried Owen a now well-renound war poet was killed in WW1, a week before Armistice. He became famous only after his death, when his poetry in the trenches was published. He also credits a lot of his work to Sassoon, for their joint effects in assembling literature together at Craiglockhart.
• CH8: Wilfred Owen, another patient in the hospital, comes to visit Sassoon and asks him to sign books for him. Sassoon happily agrees, and is surprised that Owen has brought five copies for him to sign. Owen is impressed BUT "everything about Sassoon intimidated him, his status as a published poet, his height, his good looks" Yet he finds they have a lot in common; they are both poets; they both oppose the war but do not consider themselves pacifists; and they both look at life reflectively. Sassoon offers Owen the invitation to bring his poems over anytime he would like someone to read them.
• Ch8: Owen and Sassoon first encounter: Owen stammers heavily. Nervous around his hero.
• CH11: When Sassoon and Owen converse over their love for poetry - Owen's stammer disappears and suddenly their friendship appears prosperous.
• CH14: Back in the hospital, Sassoon helps Owen to draft one of his most famous poems, "Anthem for Doomed Youth." He notices that Owen's stammer is improving, and he encourages him to publish him poem.
• CH19: Sassoon and Owen sit in the corner of a lounge at the Conservative Club drinking brandy. They laugh together over a book of very bad poetry given to Sassoon by the author, an admirer. Sassoon gives the book to Owen as a gift.
• ch19: Sassoon pats Owen on the back and says goodbye. Owen is left with a tremendous sense of loss.
• Owen writes to Sassoon from Craiglockhart War Hospital, thanking him for helping him write Anthem for Doomed Youth. He also mentions that he will be leaving soon to return to France.