Product Description

Of all the poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen most fires the imagination today. This biography is more than a simple account of his life - the childhood spent in the backstreets of Birkenhead and Shrewsbury, the appalling months in the trenches - it is a poets enquiry into the workings of a poets mind. This paperback reproduces all the widely praised illustrations of the original edition, including drawings by the poet and facsimile manuscripts of many of his greatest poems. As a portrait of the artist, the book has proved, as the Scotsman predicted, indispensable to any student of Wilfred Owen's life and work.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #331242 in Books
• Published on: 1988-08-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Graham Greene, The Sunday Times
"Surely one of the finest biographies of our time."

Review
Surely one of the finest biographies of our time. (Graham Greene, The Sunday Times )

a worthy memorial to its subject (Kingsley Amis, Observer )

About the Author
Jon Stallworthy is Professor of English Literature at Wolfson College, Oxford. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry and works of criticism.

Customer Reviews

A well researched biography of one of Britain's finest poets
Lovely, well researched biography, with good and full information from childhood to death. Numerous photographs also accompany the text. It contains many useful quotes from Wilfred Owen's younger brother, as well as poems and excerps from letters by Wilfred Owen. The volume is finished off beautifully with an amazing afterward.