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Owen the Poet
Dominic Hibberd
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Description for Owen the Poet
Paperback. Series: Studies in 20th Century Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.
Wilfred Owen's poetry is now very widely known as the finest that came out of the First World War. But much about the poet and his work has not been fully understood. This book, based on unrivalled research, is the first to study of Owen's complete poetic achievement, revealing the uniqueness, strangeness and unity of what he called his 'poethood'. His war poems are shown to be a consistent development from his prewar verse and his unswerving allegiance to Romanticism; they grew out of a pattern of mythologised secret experience that took shape in some of his least-known manuscripts before ... Read more
Wilfred Owen's poetry is now very widely known as the finest that came out of the First World War. But much about the poet and his work has not been fully understood. This book, based on unrivalled research, is the first to study of Owen's complete poetic achievement, revealing the uniqueness, strangeness and unity of what he called his 'poethood'. His war poems are shown to be a consistent development from his prewar verse and his unswerving allegiance to Romanticism; they grew out of a pattern of mythologised secret experience that took shape in some of his least-known manuscripts before ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Studies in 20th Century Literature
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349077007
SKU
V9781349077007
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Ref
99-15
About Dominic Hibberd
DOMINIC HIBBERD has taught at Manchester Grammar School, Northwestern University, and the Universities of Exeter and Keele. He is the editor of Wilfred Owen: War Poems and Others, Poetry of the First World War: A Casebook and (with John Onions) Poetry of the Great War: An Anthology.
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