Wilfred Owen: A New Biography - Rilegato

Hibberd, Dominic

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ISBN 10: 1566634873 ISBN 13: 9781566634878

Casa editrice: Ivan R Dee, 2003

Riassunto

When Wilfred Owen died in 1918 at the age of twenty-five, only five of his poems had been published. Yet he became one of the most popular poets of the twentieth century. He is now Britain's national poet of the Great War, frequently quoted in newspapers, documentary films, and novels. Today his work speaks to many young people more powerfully than any other poetry.
Dominic Hibberd's book, based on more than thirty years of wide-ranging research, brings new information and reinterpretation to virtually every phase of Owen's life. Mr. Hibberd sheds fresh light on Owen's family background, education, and struggles with religion. His sexual orientation - for he was indeed gay - is fully discussed for the first time. His army training and experiences on the Western Front in World War are described in vivid detail, using original documents from military archives. Throughout the story the poet steadily develops, from his early devotion to Wordsworth and the Romantics in 1910-1911, through his discovery of the French Decadents in 1914-1915 and his friendship with Siegfried Sassoon in 1917, to the final, superb achievement of the mature 1918 poems.

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Book by Hibberd Dominic

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• Editore: Ivan R Dee
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1566634873
• ISBN 13: 9781566634878
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 400