War Artists

Ash likes patterns, patterns that repeat, patterns in life. Sometimes it feels like the stars align, such as when Wilfred Owen met Siegfried Sassoon convalescing during World War One (WW1). Sassoon transformed Owen’s life and poetry. Both poets influenced each other. Sassoon introduced Owen to Oscar Wilde’s lover Robert Ross, who in turn introduced him to other writers and possibly lovers. Owen hero worshipped Sassoon. Both men were gallant soldiers who wrote truthfully about ‘the pity of War’, as Owen so famously put it.