Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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This new, select edition of Wilfred Owen's letters provides a fresh understanding of the poet's life in his own words.Wilfred Owen's fame as one of the great war poets of the twentieth century is unsurpassed, with Dulce et Decorum est possibly the defining piece of World War literature.Owen's letters reveal the man behind the cultural icon; human with all his foibles, whose 25 years were marked by great highs and lows, by emerging modernity, and the violence of war. Evocative, lyrical, and often surprisingly funny, the letters act as both autobiography and companion to the famous war poems. He was both an accomplished poet and one of the finest letter-writers of the twentieth century.Accompanied by new notes and new introduction, as well as previously redacted and omitted material, the new edition of Owen's Selected Letters brings together past and contemporary scholarship to provide fresh insights into Owen's character and poetic development.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-08-10
Mått160 x 240 x 25 mm
Vikt918 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford University Press
Antal sidor464
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199689507

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Dr Jane Potter is Reader in Arts at Oxford Brookes University and teaches Publishing courses in the School of Arts. Her research focuses on the literature of the First World War and book history. Her publications include Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War, 1914-1918 (Oxford University Press, 2005), Three Poets of the First World War: Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen, eds. Jon Stallworthy & Jane Potter (Penguin Classics, 2011), Wilfred Owen: An Illustrated Life (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2014), and, with Carol Acton, Working in a World of Hurt: Trauma and Resilience in the Narratives of Medical Personnel in War Zones (Manchester University Press, 2015). She is also editor of A Cambridge History of World War One Poetry (Cambridge University Press).

Although Wilfred Owen wrote most of his surviving letters to one person - his mother - they show all facets of his personality as well as its remarkable focus. Reading this well-judged selection, which restores some previously redacted material, we see an impressionable literary adolescent turning into a clear-eyed war poet, while at the same time being reminded that his mental development was driven by intense personal feeling. This is what makes Owen a major letter-writer as well as a major poet. His heart and his head always marched in step with one another.