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A handsome edition of Owen's poems to mark the centenary of his birth.
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18th March 1993 is the centenary of Wilfred Owen's birth. To mark the Event Chatto is reissuing the definitive single-volume edition of Owen's famous war poems, complied by Jon Stallworthy from his scholarly 2-volume edition. It has sold over 40, 000 copies, first under the Hogarth imprint, and then under Chatto. (19930204)
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In his preface Wilfred Owen hopes that the spirit of his work may survive after the names and places of the Great War are forgotten. When one reads his haunting poems on the horrors and reality of World War One, horrors which those back in England often were not fully aware of until Owen contributed to their exposure, one must feel that the spirit of them is very much still alive. Amidst the carnage death must have become commonplace, but Owen still managed to imbue all of his accounts with a suitably elegaic tone that makes this collection one of the saddest and, at the same time most life-affirming books which I have read in a long time. I would commend it as essential to anyone with an interest in World War One, or simply in the precious and fragile nature of life.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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The collected poems of WIlfred Owen. Owen will always be remembered for his war poems, which form the backbone of this volume. They are all here, along with a few pre war efforts such as Written in a Wood and Lines Written on My Nineteeth Birthday. But it is the war poems that he is remembered for. Works such as Anthem for a Doomed Youth and Parable of the Old Man and the Young speaking powefully of the various losses associated with the first world war, both the loss of life and the loss of innocence. Jon Stallworthy has provided a usefull introduction and handy notes for the poems. These are powerful poems and this volume does them justice.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Wilford Owen was a poet of vast immense talent, a talent that really came to the fore during his experiences on the western front. Whilst he is by no means ignored, his work sadly tends to be underrated due to his continual placing besides Siegfried Sassoon. Although Sassoon was undoubtedly a great poet, he doesn't quite compare to Owen's ability to affect the reader at the deepest and most profound levels.
'Dulce et decorum est' is quite simply the greatest poem ever written in the English language and it is nigh on impossible not to be moved to tears upon first reading. 'No greater love' is incredibly harrowing with its description of a soldier torn apart by enemy fire yet manages to convey a sense of poetic beauty in said soldiers sacrifice that avoids any triteness. 'The parable of the old man and the young' uses a simple biblical allegory to devestating affect and is yet again a perfect example of Owen's talent to affect the reader on such a deep level.
Remarkable too is that his poetry is extremely accessable yet in being so loses none of its ability to say so much. He can not be recommended highly enough
'Dulce et decorum est' is quite simply the greatest poem ever written in the English language and it is nigh on impossible not to be moved to tears upon first reading. 'No greater love' is incredibly harrowing with its description of a soldier torn apart by enemy fire yet manages to convey a sense of poetic beauty in said soldiers sacrifice that avoids any triteness. 'The parable of the old man and the young' uses a simple biblical allegory to devestating affect and is yet again a perfect example of Owen's talent to affect the reader on such a deep level.
Remarkable too is that his poetry is extremely accessable yet in being so loses none of its ability to say so much. He can not be recommended highly enough
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