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This study of one of the most popular of English poets explores the meaning in Wilfred Owen's life of the family, the Church, the army and English poets of the past. It examines the language of these four communities, and shows how their discourses helped to mould the poet's own. Readings of Owen's poetry are supported by new information on his background and biography. This book should be found interesting by scholars and students of Wilfred Owen and of 20th-century poetry; general readers interested in Owen and the War Poets. ... Read more

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This text seeks to understand how the poet Wilfred Owen fits into the poetic debate about the meaning of war. It also explores how his literary stance was formed by earlier and contemporary influences and comments in detail about some of his works. ... Read more

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Battleground Europe launches a new series of books devoted to the wartime experiences and influences of the "war poets" of the First World War. The first volume is devoted to Wilfred Owen, whohas emerged as the greatest of these "war poets."A full description of his military career is especially vital for a complete understanding of a writer such as Wilfred Owen. ... Read more

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Jon Silkin has edited and annotated all the war poems of Wilfred Owen, together with an introduction. The volume is designed as a key collection for anyone interested in 20th-century poetry. ... Read more

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A thoroughly annotated selection of the poems and prose of Wilfred Owen, which includes later non-war poems and prose such as the well known "Preface" and "Choice of Letters". ... Read more

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Another way of saying the sadness of the war.
Owen gives a sense of sadness of the war through the eye of a little child. ... Read more

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EVERYMAN'S POETRY LIBRARY: This new series of the world's greatest poetry features the hallmarks of Everyman Classics: top-quality production and reader-friendly design along with helpful notes and critiques. Each edition is also a great value, especially for those readers beginning to explore the work of these remarkable poets. ... Read more

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wilfred owen & rupert brooke?
That's an interesting combination of poets, considering how very different they were. Brooke was this handsome patriotic playboy and all his war-related poems are about the nobility of dying for your country, etc.He never actually fought.Owen was actually an officer in World War I and saw the worst of trench life, and many of his poems attempt (and succeed, in my opinion) in splashing mud all over Brooke's romanticized image of war and country.Brooke's poetry is very pretty, tidy, contained but Owen actually verges on being profound.Some of his work you just can't get out of your head.Anyway, get a book of Owen (The Poems of Wilfred Owen by Jon Stallworthy is the most complete compilation that I know of, but that basically means there's the bad stuff in there as well as the good ;) and skip Brooke. ... Read more

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Wilfred Owen was born in 1893 in Plas Wilmot, near Oswestry in Shropshire. He worked as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language and was tutoring in France when war was declared against Germany. He enlisted in 1915 and fought for two years before suffering from concussion and trench fever. He was sent to recover at Craiglockart War Hospital, near Edinburgh where he introduced himself to the established poet Siegfried Sassoon, who was also a patient. Sassoon encouraged Owen to write and worked with him on some of his poems.
When he was recovered, Owen was posted back to France where he won the military cross but was killed on the bank of the Oise-Sambre Canal just a week before the end of the war.
Only five of Owen's poems were published while he was alive. Sassoon collected his poems and published them in 19220. It has been said that Owen's poems shaped the attitude of a generation to the futility and tragedy of war, exemplified by his own life. ... Read more