Wilfred Owen

by Jon Stallworthy

Hardcover, 1974

Status

Available

Publication

London : Oxford University Press [etc.], 1974.

Description

Of all the poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen most fires the imagination today. This biography is more than a simple account of his life - the childhood spent in the backstreets of Birkenhead and Shrewsbury, the appalling months in the trenches - it is a poets enquiry into the workingsof a poets mind.This paperback reproduces all the widely praised illustrations of the original edition, including drawings by the poet and facsimile manuscripts of many of his greatest poems. As a portrait of the artist, the book has proved, as the Scotsman predicted, indispensable to any student of Wilfred Owen'slife and work.

Awards

WH Smith Literary Award (Winner — 1975)
Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize (Winner — 1974)

Language

Barcode

8029
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