In his draft Preface, Wilfred Owen includes his well-known
statement 'My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in
the pity'. All of his important poems were written in just over a
year, and Dulce et Decorum Est, S.I.W., Futility and Anthem for
Doomed Youth still have an astonishing power to move the reader.
Owen pointed out that 'All a poet can do today is to warn. That is
why all true Poets must be truthful'. His warning was based on his
acute observation of the soldiers with whom he served on the
Western Front, and his poems reflect the horror and the waste of
the First World War. This volume contains all Owen's best-known
poems, only four of which were published in his lifetime. He was
killed a week before the Armistice in November 1918.
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