Why Did Wilfred Owen Dedicate His Poem To Jessie?
Why Did Wilfred Owen Dedicate His Poem To Jessie? ‘gas poem’, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est‘, one has the ‘dedication’ ‘To Jessie Pope, etc’ (the ‘etc’ presumably meaning ‘and all like her’), which is cancelled in favour of ‘To a certain Poetess’ ; and of the two drafts which were owned by Harold Owen,1 one has