War Poems

Informationen zum Autor Wilfred Owen was born in Oswestry, a Shropshire town close to the Welsh border, on 18 March 1893. Intended first for the church, Owen finally decided at the age of 20 that literature meant more to him than evangelical religion. He was working as a tutor in France when Germany invaded Belgium and war was declared in 1914. Owen enlisted a year later, was commissioned into the 5th (Reserve) Battalion, Manchester Regiment in 1916, and crossed to France at the end of that year. By mid-1917 he was diagnosed as suffering from shellshock, and was invalided back to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland, where he met Siegfried Sassoon. He wrote some of his most powerful war poetry at the start of 1918 before he was declared fit to return to France. Owen was awarded the Military Cross for his service in the last British assaults on the German line, but he did not live to wear it or to see in print most of the poems that would make his name. In the early morning of 4th November 1918, his platoon was caught in heavy fire and Wilfred Owen was killed, only seven days before peace was declared. Klappentext The complete and definitive edition of poems from the greatest poet of WW1, Wilfred Owen2018 marks a hundred years since the end of the First World War. Zusammenfassung The complete and definitive edition of poems from the greatest poet of WW1, Wilfred Owen2018 marks a hundred years since the end of the First World War.

Product details

• Authors: Wilfred Owen, Jon Stallworthy
• Assisted by: Jon Stallworthy (Editor), Stallworthy Jon (Editor)
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.02.1994
• EAN: 9780701161262
• ISBN: 978-0-7011-6126-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; First World War, HISTORY / Military / World War I, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)