Author: Jane Potter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191003654
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
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.
Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen
Author: Jane Potter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191003654
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191003654
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
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.
The Sherman Letter
Author: Leonard Palmer
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557540313
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Highlighted by the original, unpublished Civil War letters of William T. Shepherd, The Sherman Letter travels between the Gulf War era and the Spring, 1865 odyssey of Standford Short and the notorious SHERMAN LETTER.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557540313
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Highlighted by the original, unpublished Civil War letters of William T. Shepherd, The Sherman Letter travels between the Gulf War era and the Spring, 1865 odyssey of Standford Short and the notorious SHERMAN LETTER.
Letters from Owen
Author: T. L. Haddix
Publisher: T L Haddix
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Hidden in an attic, tucked under the eaves, is a dusty box containing a treasure more precious than gold… Every year, Sarah Campbell throws an annual spring cleaning party. These days, she recruits some of her grandkids to get the job done. She knows to expect joking, teasing, friendly shenanigans, and not a little laughter from her family. This year’s crew doesn’t disappoint - with Colin, Easton, and Sadie helping, there’s never a dull moment. But in the middle of cleaning, Colin stumbles across an old chest in the attic, a chest that contains a box of letters thought to have been lost decades earlier. The housework screeches to a halt as she and her husband, Owen, surrounded by family, explore the memories contained within the wooden box. Spanning more than a decade, the correspondence tells the story of the early years of their marriage, commemorating the events that pepper a relationship through time - births, deaths, losses, joys, arguments, frustrations… and, most of all, love. Letters from Owen is a bonus, standalone novella. While it can be read at any point, to avoid spoilers, it’s probably best to read it after Burning Springs.
Publisher: T L Haddix
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Hidden in an attic, tucked under the eaves, is a dusty box containing a treasure more precious than gold… Every year, Sarah Campbell throws an annual spring cleaning party. These days, she recruits some of her grandkids to get the job done. She knows to expect joking, teasing, friendly shenanigans, and not a little laughter from her family. This year’s crew doesn’t disappoint - with Colin, Easton, and Sadie helping, there’s never a dull moment. But in the middle of cleaning, Colin stumbles across an old chest in the attic, a chest that contains a box of letters thought to have been lost decades earlier. The housework screeches to a halt as she and her husband, Owen, surrounded by family, explore the memories contained within the wooden box. Spanning more than a decade, the correspondence tells the story of the early years of their marriage, commemorating the events that pepper a relationship through time - births, deaths, losses, joys, arguments, frustrations… and, most of all, love. Letters from Owen is a bonus, standalone novella. While it can be read at any point, to avoid spoilers, it’s probably best to read it after Burning Springs.
More Letters of Charles Darwin
Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The Casquet of Literature: Being a Selection in Poetry and Prose from the Works of the Most Admired Authors
Author: Charles Gibbon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Weekly record of the temperance movement [afterw.] The Weekly record. [Continued as] The Temperance record
Author: National temperance league
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Boy's Own Annual
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
Full of Hope and Fear
Author: Margaret Bonfiglioli
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191016969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The First World War has survived as part of our national memory in a way no previous war has ever done. This collection of letters - which lay untouched for almost ninety years - allows a unique glimpse into the war as experienced by one family at the time, transporting us back to an era which is now slipping tantalizingly out of living memory. The Slaters - the family at the heart of these letters - lived in Oxford. Like most families, they were both typical and unique. Gilbert, the father of the family, had been head of Ruskin College in Oxford, and during the war found work as the first Professor of Indian Economics in Madras. His wife, Violet, grew to detest the war and became an increasingly vocal pacifist as the slaughter continued. Owen, their eldest son, a schoolboy in 1914, was fighting in France by war's end. In the letters they wrote to each other and their friends at this time we see how the war increasingly impacted upon each of their lives and the life of the world around them - rationing, Violet's increasing involvement in radical politics, the deaths of friends, the fear of Zeppelin raids when in London, the endless discussions between Violet and Gilbert about how to keep their son out of the trenches - and the growth of Owen from schoolboy to soldier, serving as a junior officer on the Western Front. Above all, in their privacy and immediacy, their inconsistencies and false hopes, these letters bring us as near as we can ever be to understanding what people thought, feared, and hoped for during these momentous years.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191016969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The First World War has survived as part of our national memory in a way no previous war has ever done. This collection of letters - which lay untouched for almost ninety years - allows a unique glimpse into the war as experienced by one family at the time, transporting us back to an era which is now slipping tantalizingly out of living memory. The Slaters - the family at the heart of these letters - lived in Oxford. Like most families, they were both typical and unique. Gilbert, the father of the family, had been head of Ruskin College in Oxford, and during the war found work as the first Professor of Indian Economics in Madras. His wife, Violet, grew to detest the war and became an increasingly vocal pacifist as the slaughter continued. Owen, their eldest son, a schoolboy in 1914, was fighting in France by war's end. In the letters they wrote to each other and their friends at this time we see how the war increasingly impacted upon each of their lives and the life of the world around them - rationing, Violet's increasing involvement in radical politics, the deaths of friends, the fear of Zeppelin raids when in London, the endless discussions between Violet and Gilbert about how to keep their son out of the trenches - and the growth of Owen from schoolboy to soldier, serving as a junior officer on the Western Front. Above all, in their privacy and immediacy, their inconsistencies and false hopes, these letters bring us as near as we can ever be to understanding what people thought, feared, and hoped for during these momentous years.
Works
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Woman's World
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History of women
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History of women
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description