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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 F...

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Excerpt from PoemsIN writing an Introduction such as this it is good to be brief. The poems printed in this book need no preliminary commendations from me or anyone else. The author has left us his own fragmentary but impressive Foreword, this, and his Poems, can speak for him, backed by the authority of his experience as an infantry soldier, and sustained by nobility and originality of style. All that was strongest in Wilfred Owen survives in...

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Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was one of the leading poets of the First World War. Brought up in Birkenhead and Shrewsbury, Owen worked as a lay assistant to the vicar of Dunsden before teaching in France the year before the war broke out. In 1915 he enlisted in the Artists Rifles and was wounded in combat in 1917. Recovering from concussion and shell shock in an Edinburgh hospital, Owen met another patient, the poet Siegfried Sassoon, who became h...

In his draft Preface, Wilfred Owen includes his well-known statement 'My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity'. All of his important poems were written in just over a year, and 'Dulce et Decorum Est', 'S.I.W.', 'Futility' and 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' still have an astonishing power to move the reader. Owen pointed out that 'All a poet can do today is to warn. That is why all true Poets must be truthful'. His warning ...

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage, poems epic and intimate, essays sa...

Excerpt from Poems IN writing an Introduction such as this it is good to be brief. The poems printed in this book need no preliminary Commendations from me or anyone else. The author has left us his own fragmentary but impressive Foreword, this, and his Poems, can speak for him, backed by the authority of his experience as an infantry soldier, and sustained by nobility and originality of style. All that was strongest in Wilfred Owen survives ...

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Mit Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) stirbt vier Tage vor dem Ende des ersten Weltkrieges ein junger Dichter - einer, wenn nicht sogar der wichtigste der War Poets, Kriegsdichter englischer Sprache. Seine Gedichte zählen zum kulturellen Gedächtnis Großbritanniens, sind aber in Deutschland weithin unbekannt, eine vollständige Übersetzung seiner Kriegsgedichte lag vor Erscheinen dieses Bandes nicht vor. 2014 jährt sich zum einhundertsten Mal der Ausbr...

Wilfred Owen wurde am 18. März 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire geboren. Als Kriegsfreiwilliger, der es sehr bald zum Offizier brachte, erlitt er im April 1917 in Frankreich bei einem Gesch¿ützangriff auf englische Stellungen einen schweren Schock und wurde in das schottische Sanatorium Craiglockhart eingeliefert. Owen fiel mit 25 Jahren kurz vor Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs. Der englische Dichter gilt bis heute mit seinen Gedichten von der Front al...

Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists' Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered the most important British poems of WWI. This definitive edition is based on manuscripts of Owen's papers in the British Museum and other archives.

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With an introduction by Owen's friend and fellow poet, Siegfried Sassoon.

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