The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen (New Directions Book)

ISBN: 0811201325

Author: Owen, Wilfred

Condition: Used

The very content of Owens poems was, and still is, pertinent to the feelings of young men facing death and the terrors of war. -The New York Times Book Review Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered the most important British poems of WWI. This definitive edition is based on manuscripts of Owens papers in the British Museum and other archives.