Poems

With an introduction by Siegfried Sassoon

OWEN, Wilfred

OWEN, Wilfred Poems With an introduction by Siegfried Sassoon

Chatto & Windus, 1920.

First edition. Original red cloth with title label to the spine. Frontispiece photogravure of Owen. A fine copy, bright and crisp with scarcely any of the habitual fading to the spine. An exceptional copy.

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)

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Stock ID: 45669

£3,500.00

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