One of Britain's best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen
(1893-1918) was killed at age 25 on one of the last days of the
First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer
despite his famous misgivings about the war's rationale and
conduct. He left behind a body of poetry that sensitively captured
the pity, rage, valor, and futility of the conflict. In this new
biography Guy Cuthbertson provides a fresh account of Owen's life
and formative influences: the lower-middle-class childhood that he
tried to escape; the places he lived in, from Birkenhead to
Bordeaux; his class anxieties and his religious doubts; his
sexuality and friendships; his close relationship with his mother
and his childlike personality. Cuthbertson chronicles a great
poet's growth to poetic maturity, illuminates the social strata of
the extraordinary Edwardian era, and adds rich context to how
Owen's enduring verse can be understood.
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