TY - BOOK AU - Stallworthy, Jon TI - Wilfred Owen SN - 019282211X U1 - 821.912 PY - 1998/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Poets, English- 20th century- Biography KW - War poetry KW - War and literature KW - Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918 KW - Soldiers' writings, English N2 - Reissued to mark the centenary of Wilfred Owen's birth, this biography is more than a simple account of his life--the childhood spent in the back streets of Birkenhead and Shrewsbury, the appalling months in the trenches--it is an enquiry into the workings of a poet's mind. Reproducing some of Owen's drawings and facsimile manuscripts of many of his greatest poems, this portrait is indispensable to any student of Wilfred Owen and the poetry of the First World War ER -