Wilfred Owen - Selected Poems
About this book
WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918) was killed in action a week before the signing of the armistice. Only a handful of his verses were published in his lifetime. In spite of this, Owen more than any other writer has shaped modern ideas about the Great War. "Dulce Et Decorum Est", "Strange Meeting" and "Anthem for Doomed Youth" have saddened and thrilled generations since. This is largely thanks to his friend Siegfried Sassoon, who brought out an edition of the war poems in 1920. Edmund Blunden edited a more complete collection in 1931 and C. Day Lewis a third in 1963, but it is Sassoon's choice, selected and arranged for impact, that everyone remembers. This ebook includes all the familiar poems plus a few others less directly concerned with the fighting. They are rearranged in chronological order, in so far as dates are known, to show the development of his work.