The Poems Of Wilfred Owen
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few voices to emerge from the catastrophe of the First World War carry the raw, anguished power of Wilfred Owen's, and The Poems of Wilfred Owen stands as the definitive testament to his genius. Owen, who died in action just one week before the Armistice in 1918 at the age of twenty-five, chronicles the unvarnished horror, pity, and absurdity of trench warfare with an immediacy that no dispatch or official report could ever capture. Iconic works such as Dulce et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth confront the reader with the grim realities of gas attacks, shell shock, and mass slaughter, dismantling the era's romantic notions of heroic sacrifice with unflinching precision. Edited and presented with a biographical memoir by fellow poet Edmund Blunden, this collection illuminates Owen's tragically brief but incandescent literary life, offering essential context for understanding the man behind the verse. Blunden's editorial stewardship ensures that Owen's technical mastery — his pioneering use of pararhyme and his debt to Keats — is as visible as his moral fury. A cornerstone of twentieth-century English literature, this volume remains as urgent and necessary today as it was when first published, leaving the reader to ponder what further masterworks the world lost on the banks of the Sambre-Oise Canal.
Author: Wilfred Owen
Format: Hardback
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few voices to emerge from the catastrophe of the First World War carry the raw, anguished power of Wilfred Owen's, and The Poems of Wilfred Owen stands as the definitive testament to his genius. Owen, who died in action just one week before the Armistice in 1918 at the age of twenty-five, chronicles the unvarnished horror, pity, and absurdity of trench warfare with an immediacy that no dispatch or official report could ever capture. Iconic works such as Dulce et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth confront the reader with the grim realities of gas attacks, shell shock, and mass slaughter, dismantling the era's romantic notions of heroic sacrifice with unflinching precision. Edited and presented with a biographical memoir by fellow poet Edmund Blunden, this collection illuminates Owen's tragically brief but incandescent literary life, offering essential context for understanding the man behind the verse. Blunden's editorial stewardship ensures that Owen's technical mastery — his pioneering use of pararhyme and his debt to Keats — is as visible as his moral fury. A cornerstone of twentieth-century English literature, this volume remains as urgent and necessary today as it was when first published, leaving the reader to ponder what further masterworks the world lost on the banks of the Sambre-Oise Canal.