Wilfred Owen Selected Letters

by Owen, Wilfred; Bell, John

• ISBN13: 9780192880895
• ISBN10: 0192880896
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-12-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Wilfred Owen left home in Shrewsbury in 1911, at the age of eighteen, tobecome lay assistant to the vicar of a country parish; seven years later, havingwon an MC for gallantry, he was killed in action. This selection from the full1967 edition of his letters includes some early examples, but concentrates onthe last seven years of his short life. His letters - almost all to his mother -constitute his self-portrait: the finest English poet of the First World Warspeaking in his own person from the age of five until the eve of hisdeath.

Author Biography

John Bell is an independent scholar.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii	(4)
Select Bibliography and Abbreviations	xi	(2)
Biographical Table	xiii
Shrewsbury and Dunsden: 1902-1913	1	(74)
Bordeaux, the Pyrenees, and Merignac: 1913-1915	75	(90)
The Artists' Rifles and Training: 1915-1916	165	(40)
The Somme and Craiglockhart: 1917	205	(88)
Scarborough and the Return to France: 1918	293	(72)
Appendices	365	(7)
A Letter to Charles Scott Moncrieff	365	(1)
B Concealed Messages	366	(1)
C Dulce et decorum est and some amendments to the dating of Wilfred Owen's letters	367	(5)
Dr. Paul Norgate
Index	372