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Requiem For War

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Requiem For War

1893

The Life Of Wilfred Owen

1918    by Arthur Orrmont

Quick Biography:

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (March 18, 1893 – November 4, 1918) was a British poet and soldier, regarded by many as the leading poet of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trench and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the confidently patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Some of his best-known works—most of which were published posthumously—include Dulce Et Decorum Est, Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility, and Strange Meeting. His preface intended for a book of poems to be published in 1919 contains numerous well-known phrases, especially ‘War, and the pity of War’, and ‘the Poetry is in the pity’.

He is perhaps just as well-known for having been killed in action at the Sambre-Oise Canal just a week before the war ended, causing news of his death to reach home as the town’s church bells declared peace.

1972 Stated First Printing Four Winds Press

Complete in 192 Pages

Hardcover in Dustjacket in The Publishers Reinforced Binding and The Publishers Gold Foil Binding Label Affixed at the Lower Dustjacket Spine

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Quarter Tan Buckram Cloth and Deep Brown Buckram Cloth Boards,,Silvered Lettering at the Spine,,Wilfred Owen Frontis In A Price Clipped Dustjacket with the Publishers Gold Foil Label at the Lower Spine

Wilfred Owen Poems at the Rear Include:

Strange Meeting

The Next War

Spring Offensive

Futility

Dulce Et Decorum Est

The Parable of the Old Man and the Young

Miners

Anthem for Doomed Youth

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