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Wilfred Owen
Owen, Wilfred
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Owen, Wilfred (1893–1918), joined the army in 1915; he was invalided to hospital in Edinburgh, where he was greatly encouraged in his writing by
Sassoon. He returned to France in 1918, won the MC, and was killed a week before the Armistice. He found his own voice as a poet in the trenches. Only five of his poems were published in his lifetime, but his reputation slowly grew, greatly assisted by
Blunden's edition of his poems, with a memoir, in 1931, and he is now generally regarded as a war poet of the first rank. His bleak realism, his energy and indignation, and his mastery of metrical variety and assonance are evident in most of his work. His poems were chosen by
Britten for the
War Requiem. The poems were collected again in 1963, edited by
Day-Lewis.
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Articles of association: the Wilfred Owen Association.
Magazine article from: History Today; 10/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; Lieutenant Wilfred Owen MC was killed in action on the bank...18th, 1893), is the year which the Wilfred Owen Association has been working towards...the enemy you killed, my friend.' Wilfred Owen was a Shropshire lad, literally...
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Books: PORTRAIT OF DOOMED YOUTH Wilfred Owen: A new biography By Dominic Hibberd WEIDENFELD pounds 25; The first Life of Wilfred Owen for 25 years breaks new ground on his sexuality and `cowardice'. By Mark Bostridge
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 9/15/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...representative. It is Wilfred Owen, author of that memorable...disaster, established Wilfred Owen as a major voice. Accompanying...matters, was hampered by Owen's younger brother Harold...a proper biography of Wilfred, and who later published...
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A lifetime after he fell dying upon their soil, the French discover Wilfred Owen
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/27/2000; ; 700+ words
; WILFRED OWEN came this way. Before the motorway was...machine-guns, not colza, Lieutenant Wilfred Owen, of the second battalion of the Manchester...sixth-formers. Helen McPhail of the Wilfred Owen Association read, beautifully, the...
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Bridges back to Wilfred Owen's poetry
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/30/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Shropshire's most famous lad, Lt Wilfred Owen MC, poet and soldier. The completed...dismiss it," Helen McPhail, of the Wilfred Owen Association, says. "We didn...appropriate artist. Before the war Wilfred Owen wrote the poetic equivalent of...
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Wilfred Owen Without the Myths. .(Wilfred Owen: A New Biography)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Wilfred Owen. A New Biography. Dominic Hibberd...afterrnoon of 1 October 1918 Acting Captain Wilfred Owen found himself in the very heat of battle...only a few days before the Armistice, Wilfred Owen was virtually unknown; only five of...
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 "Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)")
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Missing in action; WE REMEMBER TRAGIC WAR POET WILFRED OWEN, WHOSE MOTHER WAS TOLD OF HIS DEATH ON ARMISTICE DAY Campaign to honour war hero in home town.(News)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England); 11/9/2008; 700+ words
; ...world's best-known war poet - Wilfred Owen. George Lockhart, secretary of...Legion, said: "We are proud that Wilfred Owen came from Oswestry and he is held...calls for a LIVING memorial to Wilfred Owen. A campaign has been launched...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Weekend: Books: Poetry is in the pity; Wilfred Owen - The Truth Untold. By Dominic Hibberd (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, pounds 25). Reviewed by Michael Emery.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 10/12/2002; 700+ words
; ...to be found in this biography of Wilfred Owen is that, according to the author, until the 1960s Wilfred Owen had been regarded as a minor poet...legislatures of the period'. Wilfred Owen was born on March 18 1893 in Oswestry...
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 "Mosaic (Winnipeg)")
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Regenerating Wilfred Owen: Pat Barker's revisions.
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 9/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; In addition to writing Wilfred Owen's persona and poems into her novel...these narrative strategies rely on Owen's eyewitness perspective and canonical...essay explores how Barker's use of Wilfred Owen's poetry simultaneously reinforces...
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Book review: Wilfred Owen: A battle on two fronts
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 9/29/2002; ; 700+ words
; WILFRED OWEN Dominic Hibberd Weidenfeld & Nicolson, GBP 25 IT SOUNDS out of proportion...about literary art as they went to their fates. As it happens, though, Wilfred Owen was worrying about just that, and so were Edward Thomas, Ernest Hemingway...
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"Greater Love": Wilfred Owen, Keats, and a Tradition of Desire.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Wilfred Owen is still, to some extent, a prisoner...quasi-Marxist-these readings both see Owen less as a poet within a literary tradition...s The Truth of War and Douglas Kerr's Wilfred Owen's Voices, suggest that Owen's importance...
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Wilfred Owen
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Wilfred Owen Although he lived only 25 years, the British poet Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) became one of the most well known of the War Poets, a...
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Owen, Wilfred
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Owen, Wilfred (1893–1918). Most gifted of the poets who died in battle, Owen joined up in 1915 but a meeting with Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart military hospital two years later was crucial to his development. the poems he...
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chemical warfare
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
chemical warfare Wilfred Owen, veteran and poet of World War I...chemical warfare. Dulce et decorum est , Owen's view of gassing by chlorine, sums...inhaled or in contact with the skin. Wilfred Owen captured the terror of chemical warfare...
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War Requiem
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...work, Op.66, by Britten, interpolating 9 poems by Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) into liturgical Mass. Comp...bar. soloists, ch., boys' ch., org., and orch. Owen poems are acc. by chamber orch., sometimes, but not...
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Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1933) and A Ceremony of Carols (1942). Britten's great War Requiem (1962), based on the bitter war poems of Wilfred Owen , was sung at the dedication in England of the reconstructed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed during World War II. In...
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