Wilfred Owen - An Illustrated Life

The life and work of the leading war poet is followed through a mixture of text and images, including personal books, manuscripts and family pictures. *Also appeared in May Buyer's Notes*

List of contents

Foreword Preface 1. 1893-1910 Childhood and young adulthood: Oswestry, Birkenhead, Shrewsbury 2. 1911-1915 The search for a profession: Dunsden, Bordeaux, The Pyrenees, Merignac 3. 1915-1916 Enlistment and training: London, Romford, Aldershot 4. 1917 Active Service and shell shock: The Somme and Craiglockhart 5. 1918 The last year: Ripon and France 6. Owen's Afterlife: Publication, critical reception, canonization Notes Bibliography List of poems Picture Credits Index

About the author

Jane Potter is a senior lecturer in the School of Arts at Oxford Brookes University. She is the author of "Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women s Literary Responses to the Great War, 19141918."

Summary

Those already familiar with or well-versed in Owen's work will find new material in this book, and those coming to Owen for the first time will enjoy a well researched, yet accessible, illustrated introduction to one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Potter, Jane Potter, Janet Potter
• Publisher: The Bodleian Library
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2014
• EAN: 9781851243945
• ISBN: 978-1-85124-394-5
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 218 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies