Selected Letters by Wilfred Owen

Selected Letters by Wilfred Owen

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This selection, from the full 1967 collection of Wilfred Owen's letters, includes some early examples but focuses on the last seven years of his short life. His letters - almost all to his mother - constitute his self-portrait, speaking in his own voice from the age of five to the eve of his death.

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Selected Letters by Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen left his home in Shrewsbury in 1911, at the age of 18, to become lay assistant to the vicar of a country parish; seven years later, having won an MC for gallantry, he was killed in action. This selection from the full 1967 edition of his letters includes some early examples, but concentrates on the last seven years of his short life. His letters - almost all to his mother - constitute his self-portrait: perhaps the finest English poet of World War I speaking in his own person from the age of five until the eve of his death.
demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that Owen was born a writer, a natural poet, unmistakably the real thingD. J. Enright, Listener
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ISBN 13 9780192880895
ISBN 10 0192880896
Title Selected Letters
Author Wilfred Owen
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1998-10-01
Number of pages 400
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.