A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound
editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous
book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed
Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes
are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers.
Poems is Wilfred Owen's only volume of poetry, first published
posthumously in 1920 and edited by his friend and mentor, Siegfried
Sassoon. Owen is regarded as one of the best poets of World War I and
composed nearly all of his poems in just over a year, between August
1917 and September 1918. Owen was virtually unknown at the time of his
death, yet his poetic account of a soldier's experience of war has
shaped our impression of the horrors of the Western Front. This
collection includes the well-known 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' and 'Dulce
et Decorum Est'.