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Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen de Jane Potter

Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen

Jane Potter
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 aug 2023
This new, select edition of Wilfred Owen's letters provides a fresh understanding of the poet's life in his own words.Wilfred Owen's fame as one of the great war poets of the twentieth century is unsurpassed, with Dulce et Decorum est possibly the defining piece of World War literature.Owen's letters reveal the man behind the cultural icon; human with all his foibles, whose 25 years were marked by great highs and lows, by emerging modernity, and the violence of war. Evocative, lyrical, and often surprisingly funny, the letters act as both autobiography and companion to the famous war poems. He was both an accomplished poet and one of the finest letter-writers of the twentieth century.Accompanied by new notes and new introduction, as well as previously redacted and omitted material, the new edition of Owen's Selected Letters brings together past and contemporary scholarship to provide fresh insights into Owen's character and poetic development.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199689507
ISBN-10: 0199689504
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: 10 black and white photographs and letters
Dimensiuni: 160 x 240 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.91 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Although Wilfred Owen wrote most of his surviving letters to one person - his mother - they show all facets of his personality as well as its remarkable focus. Reading this well-judged selection, which restores some previously redacted material, we see an impressionable literary adolescent turning into a clear-eyed war poet, while at the same time being reminded that his mental development was driven by intense personal feeling. This is what makes Owen a major letter-writer as well as a major poet. His heart and his head always marched in step with one another.
This Selected Letters, some 345 letters in total, is the most insightful and accurate edition of the letters that we have had yet. Building on the earlier editorial work of John Bell, Jane Potter has served Owen with care and affection, and with much expertise and wisdom. Anyone who loves Owen's poetry will want to own his Selected Letters.
With this remarkable new edition, Owen has grown even younger in years. What this authoritative and loving selection, coupled with Potter's astute Introduction and notes, reveals is not just the iconic 'war poet' or the 'voice of pity' but a man incorrigibly plural - funny, fun-loving, wry, mischievous, tender, sharply observant, occasionally insecure, vulnerable, sensuous, conflicted, wonderfully warm, and endlessly creatives with language. Blurring the boundaries between life-writing, testament and epitaph, this selection not only places him among the finest letter-writers in British literary history but serves, along with the poems, as the perfect introduction to Owen for the twenty-first century reader.
Owen's letters ...are a deeply moving supplement to his poems.
[T]hese letters reveal an affectionate, humorous, even mischievous character, eager for learning and experiences who, let's face it, lived and achieved more in his 25 years than most of us, now, could manage in 100.
Potter's Selected Letters tells, in extraordinary detail, the combined story of an artist's growth and a world-changing historical moment.
[A]n excellent introduction to the man who fully deserves a place at the forefront of the war poets' pantheon.
Nevertheless Potter's new edition can be justified in a number of ways,...with their brilliant, first-hand insights into the Great War. Potter's revised notes and new introduction alone would make it worthwhile.
This is a stunning achievement - and a surprising one, too, given the massive number of works that have explored Owen's life and work previously. Potter's introduction and notes, filled with astute observations, enrich the reading experience, making it accessible to scholars and general readers alike.

Notă biografică

Dr Jane Potter is Reader in Arts at Oxford Brookes University and teaches Publishing courses in the School of Arts. Her research focuses on the literature of the First World War and book history. Her publications include Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War, 1914-1918 (Oxford University Press, 2005), Three Poets of the First World War: Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen, eds. Jon Stallworthy & Jane Potter (Penguin Classics, 2011), Wilfred Owen: An Illustrated Life (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2014), and, with Carol Acton, Working in a World of Hurt: Trauma and Resilience in the Narratives of Medical Personnel in War Zones (Manchester University Press, 2015). She is also editor of A Cambridge History of World War One Poetry (Cambridge University Press).