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3 reviews, 2008

The Truth About WWI
This touching collection of poetry stems from the horrors of Owen's own experiences at the front. From his grim, visual and detailed description of a man dying of poison gas, to his conspiracy theories of the real reasons behind the war, Owen uncovers the old lie and disproves it right before our eyes: Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Mori...

The Works of Wilfred Owen (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library)

3 reviews
Wilfred Owen

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999

"My soul looked down from a vague height...with Death..."
Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Isaac Rosenberg are four English poets who enlisted in World War I, fought in the battles, wrote about their experiences, and chronicled the truth of what they saw of war and death in their poems. Of the four, Owen, Brooke, and Rosenberg were killed in action, while Sassoon survived until 1967, when he was 80. Of these four poets of "the ...

The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen (New Directions Book)

5 reviews
Wilfred Owen

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1965

Harrowing beauty
War and poetry- two concepts infrequently mentioned, much less allied, in the same breath. Yet during World War I a number of writers took the horrific experiences of the Western Front and turned them into some of the twentieth century's finest, most disturbing poetry. Among these "war poets", Wilfred Owen is indisputably one of the greatest. From the opening declaration " Above all, I am ...