World War I shaped the lives of several young British soldier-poets. One was Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), who was killed in action in France just a week before the Armistice that ended the war (November 11, 1918). Born in Shropshire, he enrolled in the University of London but dropped out because of illness in 1913 and then went to live in France. Working as a tutor, he began to write lyric poetry that was influenced by Keats and Shelley (see Unit 8). In 1915, Owen enlisted in the army and soon was writing angrily about the war and its horrors. In June 1917, suffering from shell shock, he was sent to a hospital in Scotland, where he met the poet Siegfried Sassoon. Both were strongly antiwar, and Sassoon's ideas about poetry also influenced Owen. Though friends tried to find him a staff job behind the lines, Owen went back to France as a platoon commander in August 1918. He won the Military Cross in October and was killed soon afterward.