Anthem for Doomed Youth
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"Anthem for Doomed Youth" is a poem written in 1917 by Wilfred Owen. It incorporates the theme of the horror of war.
Original manuscript of Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth", showing Sassoon's revisions
War Requiem
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The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a choral and orchestral composition by Benjamin Britten, composed mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962. The War Requiem was performed for the consecration of the ne
Anthem for Doomed Youth
…to the music of Pan's flute, and of Love's viol, and the bugle-call of Endeavour, and the passing-bells of Death." The poem is among those set in the War Requiem of Benjamin Britten. During live performances of the song "Paschendale", Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson often recites the first half of the poem…
Interior of the new Coventry Cathedral, where the Requiem was first performed
Britten in 1965