The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen (New Directions Books) - Softcover

Owen, Wilfred; Lewis, C. Day; Blunden, Edmund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811201325 ISBN 13: 9780811201322

Publisher: New Directions, 1965

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This definitive edition of Owen's poetry, based on a close study of the ms. sources in the British Museum and elsewhere, contains a selection of the poet's juvenilia and several other unpublished poems, as well as those which have appeared in the editions edited by Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden.

Synopsis:

Introduced by a discussion of Owen's poetry and early life, this edition includes youthful and minor verses and the war poems based on manuscripts in the British Museum.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1965
• ISBN 10: 0811201325
• ISBN 13: 9780811201322
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192