The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen
  • Published: 25 March 1994
  • ISBN: 9780701161262
  • Imprint: Chatto & Windus
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $22.99

The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen

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25 Mar 1994
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8 Jan 2019
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31 Aug 2013
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The complete and definitive edition of Owen's war poems.

The complete and definitive edition of poems from the greatest poet of WW1, Wilfred Owen

2018 marks a hundred years since the end of the First World War. Owen’s death in battle, a few days before the Armistice, was a disastrous loss to English letters and left a legacy of the finest poetry that vividly captured the unimaginable horrors of the Great War. This volume, edited by Oxford Professor Jon Stallworthy, gathers together the poems for which Owen is best known, and which represent his most important contribution to poetry in the twentieth century.

‘The greatest of all the war poets.... it is Owen's intense respect for the soldier that makes his poetry so powerful. Those who did not return have their meticulously maintained stone memorials on the fields of Flanders. But their memorial in our minds is largely built by Wilfred Owen’ Jeremy Paxman, Spectator
  • Published: 25 March 1994
  • ISBN: 9780701161262
  • Imprint: Chatto & Windus
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen MC was one of the leading English poets of the First World War. He volunteered on 21st October 1915. He saw a good deal of front-line action: he was blown up, concussed and suffered shell-shock. At Craiglockhart, the psychiatric hospital in Edinburgh, he met Siegfried Sassoon who inspired him to develop his war poetry.

He was sent back to the trenches in September, 1918 and in October won the Military Cross by seizing a German machine-gun and using it to kill a number of Germans.

On 4th November he was shot and killed near the village of Ors. The news of his death reached his parent’s home as the Armistice bells were ringing on 11 November 1918.

Also by Wilfred Owen

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Anthem For Doomed Youth
The Complete Poems and Fragments: Volume I
Three Poets of the First World War
War Poems And Others
The Poems of Wilfred Owen
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Praise for The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen

Others have shown the disenchantment of war, have unlegended the roselight and romance of it, but none with such compassion for the disenchanted or such sternly just and justly stern judgment on the idyllisers.

Guardian, 1920

For me, he is the greatest of all the war poets.... it is Owen's intense respect for the soldier that makes his poetry so powerful. Those who did not return have their meticulously maintained stone memorials on the fields of Flanders. But their memorial in our minds is largely built by Wilfred Owen

Jeremy Paxman, Spectator

The greatest of all the War Poets… This edition…is a must for every poetry lover

Emma Lee-Potter, Independent
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