Description: The Poems of Wilfred Owen. A New Edition Including Many Pieces Now First Published, and Notices of His Life and Work by Edmund Blunden. London: Chatto & Windus. 1931. First Edition. 135 pp, 8 x 5", 8vo. In good condition. Cloth boards normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine bumped. Cloth spine toned from sun-exposure, gilt lettering dulled but legible. Bookseller's ticket found on bottom edge of front paste-down: "B. H. Blackwell Ltd., Booksellers. 50 and 51 Broad Street Oxford." Previous ownership inscription, in ink, found on top edge of front end-page: "Robert Barners Reidd, College Hill 1932." Light toning throughout text-block; mostly at edges of leaves. Binding intact. Please see photos. Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon and stood in contrast to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Among his best-known works – most of which were published posthumously – are Dulce et Decorum est, Insensibility, Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility, Spring Offensive and Strange Meeting. Owen was killed in action on 4 November 1918, a week before the war's end, at the age of 25. First Complete Edition. With B. H. Blackwell Bookseller's ticket. FORN-SHELF-0718-BB-2406-HK1803
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: Wilfred Owen
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Topic: Poetry
Subject: Literature & Fiction
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