Wilfred Owen: On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War
Philip Guest
128 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0850526140
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Language: English
Publish: 979113600000
This is a guide to the battlefields that inspired the young and sensitive poet, whose poems are probably the twentieth centuryÕs best-known literary expressions of experience of war. Detailed maps, military diaries, photographs and modern roads guide the visitor through the battlefields. Owen\’s letters are used extensively, together with his poetry, linking specific places events, vividly describing the suffering of the trench.