May 30th, 2012 at 12:32PM

Read the full article on The Daily Beast website, “Last Letters From World War I Literary Heroes.”

English poet Wilfred Owen’s last letter to his mother. Dated Oct. 31, 1918, Owen was killed on November 4, one week before the Armistice.

The Ransom Center holds a Wilfred Owen Collection of World War I Poetry, which includes some family correspondence as well.

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    Just finished reading through the sample of letters at the link. Heartbreaking doesn’t begin to describe them.
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    I studied this letter in the fall at Oxford. It was really moving, in the most horrible way possible.
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    “And I heard a voice crying This is the Path of Glory” For some reason, I find Owen’s death to be the saddest of all. He...
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    English poet Wilfred Owen’s last letter to his mother. Dated Oct. 31, 1918, Owen was killed on November 4, one week...
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    is a must read. Sad, and jarring because you know that he died just days after writing this, but a very profound...
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    THE RANSOM CENTER HAS EVERYTHING COOL. I want to study at your school so terribly.
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