Owen, Sassoon and Graves: how a Scottish hospital became the crucible for the greatest war poetry
Owen, Sassoon and Graves: how a Scottish hospital became the crucible for the greatest war poetry: Shutterstock In June 1917, shell-shocked and exhausted from his experiences on the Western Front, the young English poet Wilfred Owen was sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh to recuperate. Much of our awareness of Owen’s time at Craiglockhart …
