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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9781853264238
ISBN: 1853264237
Label: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Manufacturer: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: December 05, 1999
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Sales Rank: 920776
Studio: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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In his draft Preface, Wilfred Owen includes his well-known statement 'My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity'. All of his important poems were written in just over a year, and Dulce et Decorum Est, S.I.W., Futility and Anthem for Doomed Youth still have an astonishing power to move the reader. Owen pointed out that 'All a poet can do today is to warn. That is why all true Poets must be truthful'. His warning was based on his acute observation of the soldiers with whom he served on the Western Front, and his poems reflect the horror and the waste of the First World War. This volume contains all Owen's best-known poems, only four of which were published in his lifetime. He was killed a week before the Armistice in November 1918.
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Rating:  - Senimental and moving during wartime
I remember reading about Owen's poetry when looking up information on Siegfried Sasoon. While some of the poems in this collection will be too melancholic for some, there are some great poems in this volume that really make one think about passivity around issues of war and death. I especially liked "To Eros," "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young," and the few that are mentioned in Owen Knowles' excellent introduction. There are approxmately 70 pages of really good poetry here. While it ... Read More
Rating:  - 59 poems.
If you want a good introduction to Wilfred Owen's poems, get the Collected Works ISBN: 0811201325 instead.
Rating: - "My soul looked down from a vague height...with Death..."
Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and
Isaac Rosenberg are four English poets who enlisted
in World War I, fought in the battles, wrote about
their experiences, and chronicled the truth of what
they saw of war and death in their poems. Of the four,
Owen, Brooke, and Rosenberg were killed in action,
while Sassoon survived until 1967, when he was 80.
Of these four poets of "the Great War," perhaps
Owen is the most lyrical, tragic, and filled with
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9781853264238
ISBN: 1853264237
Label: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Manufacturer: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: December 05, 1999
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Sales Rank: 920776
Studio: Wordsworth Editions Ltd