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The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

by Wilfred Owen · 1918

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Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists' Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered the most important British poems of WWI.

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This definitive edition is based on manuscripts of Owen's papers in the British Museum and other archives.

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