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(0)Wilfred Owen
1) Poems
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English
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Poems by Wilfred Owen. Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon
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2022
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English
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Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Wilfred Owen was a soldier and poet during the second half of the first World War. His poetry, contrary to the propaganda of the time, dealt with the horrors of frontline trench warfare and was written at least partially out of a sense of duty to tell of the realities of war. Most of his poetry was published posthumously in 1920 after his death in combat in November 1918, a mere week before...
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English
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This 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.
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No poet is more closely identified with the First World War than Wilfred Owen. His striking body of work, grim to the point of brutality yet, at the same time, majestic and awe-inspiring, defines the war for us. It is in each of these famous poems that Owen reflects on the four terrible months that he lived through, he conveys the experience of war, the death, the destruction and the filth, through a unique poetic language and a bold artistic vision....
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1. Diary Entries 4. In Flanders Fields 5. Preface: Poems by Wilfred Owen 6. Strange Meeting 7. Greater Love 8. Apologia pro Poemate Meo The Show 9. Mental Cases 10. Parable of the Old Men and the Young 11. Arms and the Boy 12. Anthem for Doomed Youth 13. The Send-off 14. Insensibility 15. Dulce et Decorum est 16. The Sentry 17. The Dead-Beat 18. Exposure 19. Spring Offensive 20. The Chances 21. S.I.W. 22. Futility 23. Smile, Smile, Smile 24. Conscious...
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The horrors of the First World War released a great outburst of emotional poetry from the soldiers who fought in it as well as many other giants of world literature. Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke and W B Yeats are just some of the poets whose work is featured in this anthology. The raw emotion unleashed in these poems still has the power to move readers today. As well as poems detailing the miseries of war there are poems on themes of bravery, friendship...
8) Seven Ages
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Naxos AudioBooks
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English
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'One of the best anthologies of the year. An arresting, deeply moving collection of the best of British poetry read by a star-studded cast.' The Independent This exceptional anthology, based on Lord Owen's published anthology Seven Ages - Poetry for a Lifetime, features many of Britain's leading actors who have all given their services for charity. Shakespeare's 'seven ages' speech (read by Sir Ian McKellen) punctuates the programme which contains...