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  • War Poet

    by Jon Stallworthy ...
    Jon Stallworthy wrote his first poems during school days shadowed by the Second World War and a mother's memories of a brother and friends killed in the First. At school he was introduced to the poems of Wilfred Owen, whose biography he would later write, and to those of others who would be represented in his Oxford Books of War Poetry. Many of the most anthologized and ambitious of his own poems— ... Read more

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  • Wilfred Owen

    by Jon Stallworthy ...
    Of all the poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen most fires the imagination today – this is the comprehensive literary biography of the greatest WW1 poetWilfred Owen tragically died in battle just a few days before the Armistice. Now, during the centenary year of his death, this biography honours Owen’s brief yet remarkable life, and the enduring legacy he left. Stallworthy covers his life ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen

    by Wilfred Owen ...
    '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 ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The New Oxford Book of War Poetry

    Edited by Jon Stallworthy ...
    Series series Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
    There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • W.B.Yeats: Last Poems

    by Jon Stallworthy ...
    Series series Casebooks Series
    This is a Bloomsbury Academic title. For our full Academic Catalogue, please visit https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/academic/ ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Survivors' Songs

    From Maldon to the Somme

    by Jon Stallworthy ...
    From Homer to Heaney, the voices of men and women have seldom been more piercing, more poignant, than in time of conflict. For fifty years, Jon Stallworthy has been attuned to such voices. In Survivors' Songs he explores a series of poetic encounters with war, with essays on Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and others. Beautifully written, this moving book sets the poetry and prose ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Selected Poems

    by William Yeats ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    This selection of the works of W B Yeats, includes the final book from the unfairly neglected narrative poem 'The Wanderings of Oisin' and a number of lyrics from Yeats's work as poetic dramatist. It breaks new ground by allowing the reader to engage with a dozen poems in alternative versions; in many other cases it provides significant variants, so that Yeats's struggle to revise his poetry can ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • In Flanders Fields and Other Poems of the First World War

    by Brian Busby ...
    Few people alive today had direct experience of the First World War, and yet it seems embedded in the collective consciousness of the combatant nations as a warning to future generations of the futility of military conflict. Our awareness of the terror, loneliness and desperate hope endured by the men who fought this war we owe to the quality of the art that came out of it, not least the poetry. ... Read more

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  • The Great War And Modern Memory

    by Paul Fussell ...
    The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

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  • Selected Poetry of the First World War

    Edited by Marcus Clapham ...
    Series series Wordsworth Poetry Library
    The First World War was one of seemingly endless and unremitting waste and sacrifice. 'Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?' was Siegfried Sassoon's anguished cry for those whose sacrifice seemed futile. Yet eighty years later it is because of Sassoon and his fellow poets - Owen, Rosenberg, Sorley and many others - that we do remember.This new anthology ... Read more

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  • POEMS (from the Great War) - 23 of WWI's best poems

    by Wilfred Owen ...
    Series series POETRY - Viking, WWI, Contemporary, Christian etc.
    Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier, is considered to be one of the greatest poets of WWI. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier ... Read more

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  • Wilfred Owen

    Pro Patria Mori

    by Augustine Nash ...
    We were the ones' who took up arms for King and country, inexperienced but eager to sign away our young lives without thought. Never really understanding the gruesome reality awaiting us; this lies beneath the heroic notion of war.'Wilfred Owen was born in Oswestry on the 18th March 1893 in a beautiful family home named 'Plas Wilmot'. Four years' later, the house and land was sold to cover debts. ... Read more

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