Bøger af Wilfred Owen

The complete and definitive edition of poems from the greatest poet of WW1, Wilfred Owen2018 marks a hundred years since the end of the First World War.

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Collected Poems by Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Among his best-known works - most of which were published posthumously - are "Dulce et Decorum est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility", "Spring Offensive" and "Strange Meeting". We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Of all the work bequeathed by to us by that generation of young men who fought in the trenches, Owen's is the most remarkable for its breadth of sympathy and its understanding of human suffering and tenderness, at home and on the battlefield.This new, authoritative edition, indispensable to student and general reader alike, contains the texts of 103 poems and twelve fragments, among them thirty-three poems not previously published or otherwise available in paperback edition. Many of the most famous have important new readings; illuminating notes and a detailed biographical table are also included.

Mit Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) stirbt vier Tage vor dem Ende des ersten Weltkrieges ein junger Dichter - einer, wenn nicht sogar der wichtigste der War Poets, Kriegsdichter englischer Sprache. Seine Gedichte zählen zum kulturellen Gedächtnis Großbritanniens, sind aber in Deutschland weithin unbekannt, eine vollständige Übersetzung seiner Kriegsgedichte lag vor Erscheinen dieses Bandes nicht vor.2014 jährt sich zum einhundertsten Mal der Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges, jenes Ereignis, das eine rasche Abfolge zivilisatorischer Katastrophen und martialischer Kriege einläutete und die Funken, die Freiheit hießen, in Europa für lange Zeit ersticken sollten. Wilfred Owen gibt in seinen Gedichten wie kein anderer Einblicke in die Erbärmlichkeit des Krieges, in seine Konsequenzen für das Individuum und für Gesellschaften.Owens Gedichte sind keine, die in patriotischer Geste Feinde Feinden gegenüberstellen: Der Krieg macht alle, die in ihm leben müssen, zu Kameraden der Erbärmlichkeit. Und wo andere Dichter Trost im Nationalen suchten, Nationen als Sehnsuchtsorte imaginierten, ist das Erleben und das Sehnen Owens auf die Menschlichkeit ausgerichtet. Mit Schärfe schaut er auf die Konstruktionen, die Menschen zusammenhalten, auf die leeren Versprechungen von Christentum oder Nation. In der Erbärmlichkeit findet Owen Schönheit, ohne das Leiden zu ästhetisieren, Leiden, ohne Schönes darin zu stilisieren. Seine Briefe zeigen zudem einen schmerzlichen Kontrast zwischen dem Leben an der Front und dem Leben "in der Heimat" auf. Die Rezeption in Deutschland tut sich bis heute schwer mit Dichtern der sogenannten "Sieger" des Ersten Weltkrieges. Aber auch dieser Band zeigt, dass von Siegern zu sprechen nicht möglich ist im Angesicht der Erbärmlichkeit des Krieges.'Dieses Buch handelt nicht von Helden. Die englische Dichtung ist noch nicht so weit, // von ihnen zu sprechen. // Weder handelt es von Taten, von Ländern, noch von irgendetwas wie Ehre, Ruhm, // Macht, Majestäten, Herrschaft oder Kraft - außer von Krieg. // Vor allem befasse ich mich nicht mit Dichtung. // Es geht mir um den Krieg und um die Erbärmlichkeit des Krieges. // Die Lyrik findet sich in der Erbärmlichkeit. // Allerdings sind meine Klagelieder in keinem Sinne tröstlich für diese Generation. // Vielleicht sind sie es für die nächste.'

Martin Impey's artistic interpretation of Wilfred Owen's classic poem. Lavishly illustrated with pencil drawings and full colour paintings.

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.

'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyesPassed from him to the strong men that were whole.'The true horror of the trenches is brought to life in this selection of poetry from the front line.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Wilfred Owen (1893-1918). Owen is available in Penguin Classics in Three Poets of the First World War: Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen.

Wilfred Owen is perhaps the most remembered of the First World War poets, writing some of the most powerful denouncements of the horrors and hypocricies of war. Here, Jon Stallworthy selects his favourite poems.