Wilfred Owen - Selected Poems
By Wilfred Owen
2014
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WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918) was killed in action a week before the signing of the armistice. Only a handful of his verses were published in his lifetime. In spite of this, Owen more than any other writer has shaped modern ideas about the Great War. "Dulce Et Decorum Est", "Strange Meeting" and "Anthem for Doomed Youth" have saddened and thrilled generations since. This is largely thanks to his friend Siegfried Sassoon, who brought out an edition of the war poems in 1920. Edmund Blunden edited a more complete collection in 1931 and C. Day Lewis a third in 1963, but it is Sassoon's choice, selected and arranged for impact, that everyone remembers. This ebook includes all the familiar poems plus a few others less directly concerned with the fighting. They are rearranged in chronological order, in so far as dates are known, to show the development of his work.
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Wilfred Owen
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Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the goodreads data base. Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and stood in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the confidently patriotic verse written earlier by other war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Among his best-known works—most of which were published posthumously—are "Dulce et Decorum Est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility" and "Strange Meeting".
