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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 workings of 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's life and work.
| ISBN | 019282211X | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780192822116
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 450 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Imprint | Oxford Paperbacks | | Series editor | Wells, Stanley | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Oxford Paperbacks | | Publication date | 18 Aug 1988 | | Height (mm) | 210 | | Library of Congress | PR6029.W4Z | | Width (mm) | 150 | | DEWEY | 821.912 | | Spine width (mm) | 22 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | General | | Pages | 354 | |
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| | | Note on Abbreviations and Texts | | | | | | List of Illustrations | | | | 1 | | Oswestry | | 1 | | 2 | | Birkenhead | | 13 | | 3 | | Shrewsbury | | 37 | | 4 | | Dunsden and After | | 63 | | 5 | | France 1913-15 | | 94 | | 6 | | Training | | 126 | | 7 | | The Somme | | 149 | | 8 | | Craiglockhart | | 189 | | 9 | | Scarborough and Ripon | | 235 | | 10 | | France 1918 | | 269 | | | | Afterwords | | 287 | | | | Notes | | 289 | | | | Appendixes | | 304 | | A | | The Owen and Shaw Families | | | | B | | Poems and Fragments not in Collected Poems | | | | C | | Wilfred Owen's Library | | | | | | Select Bibliography | | 325 | | | | Index | | 327 |
Surely one of the finest biographies of our time. Graham Greene, The Sunday Times a worthy memorial to its subject Kingsley Amis, Observer  Be the first to write a customer review
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