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OWEN, Wilfred (1893-1918). Poems. Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon. London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. Square 8°. Frontispiece sepia photograph of the author in uniform (tissue guard discoloured with some offsetting to title). Original crimson cloth-covered boards (faded and broken at spine, spine label stained). PRESENTATION COPY FROM SIEGFRIED SASSOON, THE EDITOR AND FRIEND OF THE AUTHOR, TO WHOM ONE OF THE POEMS IS DEDICATED. INSCRIBED ON THE FRONT PASTEDOWN 'O.M. FROM S.S. MARCH 1921'.
The copy shown at John Hayward's exhibition of English Poetry Books at the National Book League in 1947. With printed description cut from the catalogue ('Lent by Mrs Julian Goodman', though this was later corrected to her new married name, reading 'Lent by Mrs Igor Vinogradoff').
Owen was killed in action, aged 25, a week before the Armistice of 1918, having published only five poems. Sassoon, whom Owen had idolized, helped him with drafts of some of his war poems, including 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', and had suggested that Owen should visit the Morrells at Garsington. Although this did not happen, he prepared the way by sending copies of poems by Owen for Morrell to read.
As Sassoon writes in his introduction, in the last year of Owen's life 'he attained a clear vision of what he needed to say, and these poems survive him as his true and splendid testament'. He is now the best known of all the war poets.
FIRST EDITION OF OWEN'S WORK, AND FIRST PRINTING OF MOST OF HIS POEMS.
The copy shown at John Hayward's exhibition of English Poetry Books at the National Book League in 1947. With printed description cut from the catalogue ('Lent by Mrs Julian Goodman', though this was later corrected to her new married name, reading 'Lent by Mrs Igor Vinogradoff').
Owen was killed in action, aged 25, a week before the Armistice of 1918, having published only five poems. Sassoon, whom Owen had idolized, helped him with drafts of some of his war poems, including 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', and had suggested that Owen should visit the Morrells at Garsington. Although this did not happen, he prepared the way by sending copies of poems by Owen for Morrell to read.
As Sassoon writes in his introduction, in the last year of Owen's life 'he attained a clear vision of what he needed to say, and these poems survive him as his true and splendid testament'. He is now the best known of all the war poets.
FIRST EDITION OF OWEN'S WORK, AND FIRST PRINTING OF MOST OF HIS POEMS.
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