With an introduction by Siegfried Sassoon
Poems With an introduction by Siegfried Sassoon
Chatto & Windus, 1920.
First edition. 8vo. Rebound in modern red morocco, gilt titles to spine. Frontispiece photogravure of Owen. A very good copy indeed, with some light spotting.
The author's first collection of poems, published following his death in action on the Sambre Canal in 1918, just a week before Armistice. The book is regarded as containing some of the finest and certainly the most resonant poetry to come out of the Great War.
"Owen... had the genius to come through the rage and frustration or even the dearth of feeling of many war poets and so to write the first understanding poems about the shell-shocked, about gas, about the enemy" (Cyril Connolly - The Modern Movement).
Connolly 36
Stock ID: 44453
£2,000.00
