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The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen

Door Wilfred Owen

Categorie
Poëzie
Boeknummer
#396749-XI39
Titel
The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen
Auteur
Owen, Wilfred
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
London : Vintage
Jaar van uitgave
2018
ISBN10
178487440X
ISBN13
9781784874407
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting
'Orpheus, the pagan saint of poets, went through hell and came back singing. In twentieth-century mythology, the singer wears a steel helmet and makes his descent "down some profound dull tunnel" in the stinking mud of the Western Front. For most readers of English poetry, the face under that helmet is that of Wilfred Owen.' Professor Jon Stallworthy, from his Introduction. When Wilfred Owen was killed in the days before the Armistice in 1918, he left behind a shattering, truthful and indelible record of a soldier's experience of the First World War. His greatest war poetry has been collected, edited and introduced here by Professor Jon Stallworthy. This special edition is published to commemorate the end of the hellish war that Owen, though the hard-won truth and terrible beauty... (Lees verder) of his poetry, has taught us never to forget.
Pagina's
104
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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