This volume contains all of Owen's best known work, only four of which were published in his lifetime. His war poems were based on his acute observations of the soldiers with whom he served on the Western front, and reflect the horror and waste of World War One.
This selection of Wilfred Owen's war poems contains an introduction by Jon Stallworthy, which is aimed at a general audience, but is also academic enough to be used in schools.
Wilfred Owen is perhaps the most remembered of the First World War poets, writing some of the most powerful denouncements of the horrors and hypocricies of war. Here, Jon Stallworthy selects his favourite poems.
This edition commemorates the centenary of the birth of Wilfred Owen who died in World War I. Containing the texts of all the finished poems of Owen's maturity and 12 important fragments, with notes, it derives from John Stallworthy's edition of Owen's Complete Poems and Fragments .