Publisher's Synopsis
The book presents a detailed analysis of eighteen of Wilfred Owen's poems that are most frequently anthologised and widely studied. Other than the textual analyses, critical perspectives on Owen's life, poetic style, the history of the First World War and of the Great War-English poets and poetry, and a comparative analysis of the poems of Owen and his mentor Siegfried Sassoon have also been included. Some of the poems included in the book are '1914', 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', 'Arms and the Boy', 'Exposure', 'Dulce et Decorum Est', 'Futility', 'Mental Cases', 'Spring Offensive' and 'Strange Meeting'. The book would be highly beneficial not only to the postgraduate and undergraduate students, but also to university and college teachers and doctoral researchers in war-literature.
