Dulce et Decorum est

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Dulce et Decorum est
by Wilfred Owen

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Dulce et Decorum est (written in 1917 and published posthumously in 1921) is a poem by World War I soldier Wilfred Owen. The work's horrifying imagery has made it one of the most popular condemnations of war ever written. It was originally drafted as a personal letter to the famous pro-war poet Jessie Pope.

— Excerpted from Dulce et Decorum est on Wikipedia.

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Versions of Dulce et Decorum est include:

"Dulce et Decorum est", the first published edition, in Poems by Wilfred Owen (1920) ed. by Siegfried Sassoon and Edith Sitwell.
"Dulce et Decorum Est", widely recognised as the authoritative version, in The Complete Poems and Fragments of Wilfred Owen (1983-4) ed. by Jon Stallworthy.