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Title: Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen ISBN: 0-8112-0132-5 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 June, 1965 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Bleak Genius of Wilfred Owen
Comment: This is a wonderful book, and one of the most powerful collections of anti-war poems ever put together. Wilfred Owen was not a man who was describing war from the safety of his own home. He was in the thick of it, and he paid the ultimate price.
'Anthem for Doomed Youth' may just be the most powerful of all anti-war poems, and it was voted 8th in a list of Britain's favourite poems in a BBC poll. This poem like Owen's work generally is written in an unpretentious style. His poetry is very moving, but without being sentimental. He's painting pictures with words, and the pictures aren't pretty.
All his renowned work is here, including 'Dulce et Decorum est', 'Disabled', and 'Mental Cases'. The notes are very interesting, as you'd expect from a literary heavyweight like C. Day Lewis, and there's also some of Owen's non war poetry, but that's still bleak!
If you want to buy any book of Owen's work, I'd recommend this one for starters.
Rating: 5
Summary: If ever we need to heed this poet it is now
Comment: Seeing a posting for a new biography of Wilfred Owen reminded me to return to this anthology of his poems. Every war has produced great poets and WWI was fixed in our minds by the sensitive words of Siegfried Sassoon and especially Wilfred Owen. Writing from the trenches Owen managed to keep his eyes and mind and heart wide open while he witnessed the horrid plunder that surrounded him.. That he was able to transpose these experiences into the transcendentally beautiful poems that fill this book is a major wonder. Yes, WWII had WH Auden et al and the hungry monster machine of war was again made into words. And poets wrote of Korea, of Vietnam, and other countries' poets wrote of other wars. But again the threats and facts cloud our lives and world, and their words seemingly fall on deaf ears. Would that we could take heed of the poems of such perfection as those here by Wilfred Owen. This is the time to study this book........daily.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wilfred Owen: The Poet who Knew the Truth
Comment: As a 13 year old boy I do not consider myself an expert on World War I poetry. Yet still I can tell that the poems of Wilfred Owen are a world apart from the likes of Rupert Brooke and other such optimists. For sure his portrayal of the war in such poems as 'Dulce et Decorum est' is more realistic than that of 'The Soldier' which talks of how as a soldier dies, he thinks of how glad he is glad that he has helped England, and how his heart is at peace under an English heaven. It seems to me that his superiors might have encouraged him to right pleasant poetry to please those back at the 'Home Front'. Yet Wilfred Owen's poetry also reflects his high level of education. Combining the skill and beauty of Brooke, with the harsh reality of such poems as 'The General' and 'To the Warmongers' to create a unique mastery of portraying the life of a first world war soldier.
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Title: Siegfried Sassoon: The War Poems by Rupert Hart-Davis ISBN: 0571130151 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 01 April, 1983 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry by Jon Silkin ISBN: 0141180099 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Wilfred Owen: A New Biography by Dominic Hibberd ISBN: 1566634873 Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg, and Others by Candace Ward ISBN: 0486295680 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (Anchor Books) by Robert Graves, R. Graves ISBN: 0385093306 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 June, 1957 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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