Owen, Wilfred

Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen (New Directions Book)

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Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen (New Directions Book)
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Fantastic.......2007-02-03

Here in this book you will find some of the finest poetry that any author from Britain has ever produced. Owen writes with style and uses words in such a beautiful way that one can only wonder how he was able to do it. His non-war poems are just as astounding as his war poems and this collection is great for any reader of poetry. Highly recommended, this book will not dissapoint.

A must read for all people.......2006-09-05

I was first exposed to the poems of Wilfred Owen in high school and it has had a lasting inpact on my appreciation of poetry and the horrors of war. The imagery that Owen uses in his classic Dolce et Decurum est about the callacousness and futility of modern warefare leaves one with both awe and disgust, especially when concluded by the saying sweetness and honor is to die for one's country. Tragically whose knows what Owen might have produced had he lived longer.

The Bleak Genius of Wilfred Owen.......2004-06-04

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.

If ever we need to heed this poet it is now.......2003-02-14

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.

Harrowing beauty.......2000-03-28

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 not concerned with Poetry... My subject is War, and the pity of War..." through the dreamlike madness of "Strange Meeting" to the elegiac fury of "Anthem for Doomed Youth", Owen hones the poetic craft he learned as a juvenile romantic versifier into a rapier on which he skewers the futility of the war, the blind official stupidity which kept it going, and the inhumanity shown by each side to its own men as well as the enemy.

Killed in action not long before the Armistice, Owen saw little publication of his work. However, his verse- carefully arranged, meticulously researched and documented by Cecil Day Lewis- is not only his epitaph. As relevant and affecting today as in 1918, it's as fine a counter-argument as any ever written against those who dismiss poetry as flowery nonsense. And for the rest of us? Few media can express the true nature and terrible costs of the First World War as eloquently as poetry at its finest can- and Owen provides it in plenty.

The Works of Wilfred Owen (Wordsworth Poetry Library) (Wordsworth Poetry Library)
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59 poems.

"My soul looked down from a vague height...with Death..."

The Works of Wilfred Owen (Wordsworth Poetry Library) (Wordsworth Poetry Library)
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59 poems........2004-11-26

If you want a good introduction to Wilfred Owen's poems, get the Collected Works ISBN: 0811201325 instead.

"My soul looked down from a vague height...with Death...".......2002-05-18

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 Great War," perhaps
Owen is the most lyrical, tragic, and filled with
pathos. In a letter to his mother, Owen wrote
after having seen a group of Scottish troops (who
would soon be dead) and the strange look on some
of their faces: "It was not despair, or terror,
it was more terrible than terror, for it was a
blindfold look, and without expression, like a
dead rabbit's. It will never be painted, and no
actor will ever seize it. And to describe it, I
think I must go back and be with them."
The editor of this volume, Douglas Kerr, says of
Owen: "This fatal vocation to witness -- for Owen
did return to the war, and was killed at the age
of twenty-five, a week before the fighting ended --
is the basis of his reputation as the best-known
of the poets of the Great War, and one of the
outstanding English writers of modern times. All of
Owen's important work in poetry was written in
just over a year, the last year of his life, and
almost all of it is about the war. 'My subject is
War, and the pity of War', he declared. 'The Poetry
is in the pity'. But it was not to be simply a
poetry of mourning, and still less of consolation.
'All a poet can do today is warn', he went on.
'That is why the true Poets must be truthful'."
Owen deals with the issues bravely and dead
on...no flinching or side-stepping. He grapples
with the issues of the War, his questioning of
his faith, and his affectionate awareness. As
Kerr also says, "And although Owen's declared
subject was 'War and the pity of War,' we can
find glimpses of his whole life here -- his
reading, his homosexuality, his friendships, his
love of music, his philosophical doubts, and his
physical enjoyments. These poems contain all
his personal history. *** Owen was not a pacifist,
but described himself as 'a conscientious objector
with a very seared conscience'. His disgust and
compassion, his anger and his courage, have done
as much as any other individual to shape the ways
we understand and feel about modern war."
Here is the beginning of one of Owen's poems
of affection titled "Storm":
His face was charged with beauty as a cloud
With glimmering lightning. When it shadowed me
I shook, and was uneasy as a tree
That draws the brilliant danger, tremulous, bowed.
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In Flanders Fields and Other Poems About War
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A Poet's Journey

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Wilfred Owen left home in Shrewsbury in 1911, at the age of eighteen, to become lay assistant to the vicar of a country parish; seven years later, having won an MC for gallantry, he was killed in action. This selection from the full 1967 edition of his letters includes some early examples, but concentrates on the last seven years of his short life. His letters - almost all to his mother - constitute his self-portrait: the finest English poet of the First World War speaking in his own person from the age of five until the eve of his death.

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A Poet's Journey.......2001-06-26

Anyone with a passing interest in writing or soldiery should read this book. Owen's passions, ambitions, times, the arc of his life, they're all here. Biographers analyze, novelists rearrange for dramatic impact, Owen wrote for no public audience and yet these letters beat them all. The equal of Keats' letters on poetry. Underappreciated and miraculous.

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Sublime
Not to be missed
The Truth About WWI

The Poems (Poetry Library)
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Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge.

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Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge.

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Sublime.......2000-04-20

I have loved Wilfred Owen's poetry since school days.His exquisite use of language vividly conjures up the horrors of war where young men had no choice in their fate and highlighted the social context in which WWW1 took place. Very moving.

Not to be missed.......2000-04-19

Indeed, this is a book not to be missed by those who love poetry. Owen's verses are mostly gut-wrenching lines that will burn images in your brain, but that is good, particularly next to other poems that we may have been familiar with, where the idea of war is an "ideal" and soldiers are knights who know no fear, who are immune to death and pain. Owen's war is different: the men die like rats in the trenches, in their own vomit, and glory and honor are not enough to protect agaist mustard gas. That the poet perished in that war is only a final irony in the short life of a sensitive man who saw too much in too short a time. Excellent.

The Truth About WWI.......2000-04-05

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...

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