Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen is perhaps the most remembered of the First World War poets, writing some of the most powerful denouncements of the horrors and hypocricies of war. Here, Jon Stallworthy selects his favourite poems.

Dying at twenty-five, a week before the end of the First World War, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) has come to represent a generation of young men sacrificed - as it seems to the next generation, one in unprecedented rebellion against its fathers - by guilty old men: generals, politicians, profiteers. Owen has now taken his place in literary history as perhaps the first, certainly the quintessential, war poet. Jon Stallworthy is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature. He has published many volumes of poetry, and several biographies and works of literary criticism. His biography of Wilfred Owen won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the W H Smith Literary Award, and the E M Forster Award.

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ISBN 13	9780571207251
ISBN 10	0571207251
Title	Wilfred Owen
Author	Wilfred Owen
Series	Poet To Poet
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2004-03-04
Number of pages	96
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