Britain’s Leaders Name Their Favorite Poems

With Britain’s National Poetry Day coming up, new Prime Minister David Cameron was asked to offer up his favorite poem. His choice was Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est,” which famously offered readers a raw glimpse at the horrors of World War I at a time when war was still heavily glorified. Owen was killed in battle in 1918, a year after writing the poem, which follows in its entirety:

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,