Wilfred Owen: a Biography
Stallworthy, Jon
| Publication Date | 1974 |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 019211719X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press and Chatto & Windus |
| Binding | Hardback |
| Condition | Very good copy in good dust jacket |
| SKU | 24624 |
| Notes | Cloth is very clean and neat. Dust jacket showing some handling wear, lightly rubbed closed tear to front and some light tanning. |
Description
H/b, 1st Ed., 9.5" x 6.5", 333pp. Biography of the First World War poet from his birth in Oswestry through a childhood in Birkenhead to his years in France and his death in November, 1918, only days before the end of the war. As Jon Stallworthy is himself a poet this book is more than a biography; it is a "poet's illuminating enquiry into the operations of a poet's mind". Red cloth with gilt titles. Endpapers printed with maps: north east France, showing the stages of German withdrawal to the Hindenberg Line, 1917. Rust coloured cloth.
