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Author: Peter Owen Jones
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1846041333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn a journey that would take him deep into the wilderness, the author sets out in the footsteps of St Anthony, the founder of monasticism. In a hermit's cell in the heart of the Egyptian Sinai Desert, he lived alone. This book contains letters which are an honest exploration of the ways in which we are formed by others.
Author: Wilfred Owen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilfred Owen, one of the finest poets of World War I, was also one of its most-mourned casualties. The poet was survived not only by the verse upon which his reputation is founded, but also by the thousands of letters he wrote from the age of five to the eve of his death at the age of twenty-five. Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen includes some early examples, but concentrates on the correspondence of the poet's last seven years--the period in which he came into his own as an artist.
Author: Jane Potter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-07-11
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 0191003654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new, select edition of Wilfred Owen's letters provides a fresh understanding of the poet's life in his own words. Wilfred Owen's fame as one of the great war poets of the twentieth century is unsurpassed, with Dulce et Decorum est possibly the defining piece of World War literature. Owen's letters reveal the man behind the cultural icon; human with all his foibles, whose 25 years were marked by great highs and lows, by emerging modernity, and the violence of war. Evocative, lyrical, and often surprisingly funny, the letters act as both autobiography and companion to the famous war poems. He was both an accomplished poet and one of the finest letter-writers of the twentieth century. Accompanied by new notes and new introduction, as well as previously redacted and omitted material, the new edition of Owen's Selected Letters brings together past and contemporary scholarship to provide fresh insights into Owen's character and poetic development.
Author: Wilfred Owen
Publisher:
Published: 2014-11-01
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781906259372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains all of Owen's poetry, including his own Preface, an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon and a Memoir by Edmund Blunden. It has been said that Owen's poems shaped the attitude of a generation to the futility and tragedy of war, exemplified by his own life.
Author: Owen Sheers
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2009-02-10
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0307385833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResistance is a beautifully written and powerful story set during an imagined occupation of Britain by Nazi Germany in World War II. In a remote and rugged Welsh valley in 1944, in the wake of a German invasion, all the men have disappeared overnight, apparently to join the underground resistance. Their abandoned wives, a tiny group of farm women, are soon trapped in the valley by an unusually harsh winter—along with a handful of war-weary German soldiers on a secret mission. The need to survive drives the soldiers and the women into uneasy relationships that test both their personal and national loyalties. But when the snow finally melts, bringing them back into contact with the war that has been raging beyond their mountains, they must face the dramatic consequences of their choices.
Author: Santanu Das
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-04-06
Total Pages: 27
ISBN-13: 1139915657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe First World War ravaged the male body on an unprecedented scale, yet fostered moments of physical intimacy and tenderness among the soldiers in the trenches. Touch, the most elusive and private of the senses, became central to war experience. War writing is haunted by experiences of physical contact: from the muddy realities of the front to the emotional intensity of trench life, to the traumatic obsession with the wounded body in nurses' memoirs. Through extensive archival and historical research, analysing previously unknown letters and diaries alongside literary writings by figures such as Owen and Brittain, Santanu Das recovers the sensuous world of the First World War trenches and hospitals. This original and evocative study alters our understanding of the period as well as of the body at war, and illuminates the perilous intimacy between sense experience, emotion and language as we try to make meaning in times of crisis.
Author: Jane Potter
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781851243945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilfred Owen is the poet of pity, the voice of the soldier maimed, blinded, traumatised and killed, not just in the Great War, but in all wars since, so resonant has his message become. Although he saw only five of his poems published in his lifetime, he left behind a portfolio of poetry and letters that created a powerful legacy.This generously illustrated book tells the story of Wilfred Owen's life and work anew, from his birth in 1893 until his death one week before the Armistice on 4 November 1918. It chronicles Owen's journey from a romantic youth, steeped in the poetry of Keats, to mature soldier awakened to the horrors of the Western Front. Drawing on rich archival material such as personal books, artefacts, family photographs and numerous manuscripts, the volume takes a fresh look at Owen's apprenticeship and eventual mastery of poetry, giving a comprehensive view of the relationship between his lived experience and his writing. Those already familiar with or well-versed in Owen's work will find new material in this book, and those coming to Owen for the first time will enjoy a well researched, yet accessible, illustrated introduction to one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.
Author: Wilfred Owen
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781853264238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains all of Owen's best known work, only four of which were published in his lifetime. His war poems were based on his acute observations of the soldiers with whom he served on the Western front, and reflect the horror and waste of World War One.
Author: Rosie Driffill
Publisher: Fishcake Publications
Published: 2017-10-01
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1909015490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat would you ask if you could write ten letters to your future self? How might they reply? In 2017, three people got the chance to find out. Yet with access to the future come even greater surprises in the present... Letters to 2039 examines hope, despair and human development. It explores our tendency for solipsism, even when faced with the chance to receive unprecedented insight into the future, and about how we might help others. At a time when planning for and predicting the future seems to have found its cultural counterpart in mindfulness, and when quantifiable outcomes have become the favoured yardstick of progress, this book looks at the tensions between the present and the future, as well as the unpredictability of the human experience.
Author: Wilfred Owen
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1965-01-17
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0811223671
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“The very content of Owen’s poems was, and still is, pertinent to the feelings of young men facing death and the terrors of war.” —The New York Times Book Review Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists’ Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered the most important British poems of WWI. This definitive edition is based on manuscripts of Owen’s papers in the British Museum and other archives.
