Wilfred Owen

Leer a Wilfred Owen es leer una de las grandes voces de la Primera Guerra Mundial; leer unos poemas en los que aparecen la pulsión de la batalla, el miedo, la angustia o el alivio comoc antos de vida

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was educated at Rugby and King's College, Cambridge. His first book of verse, Poems, was published in 1911. When World War I broke out, he joined the Royal Naval Division and died on the way to Gallipoli in 1915. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) began writing poetry as a teenager and became an English teacher in France. During World War I he fought on the Somme, was awarded the Military Cross and was killed just before the war ended.

The complete and definitive edition of poems from the greatest poet of WW1, Wilfred Owen2018 marks a hundred years since the end of the First World War.

For most readers of English poetry, the face under that helmet is that of Wilfred Owen.' Professor Jon Stallworthy, from his Introduction. When Wilfred Owen was killed in the days before the Armistice in 1918, he left behind a shattering, truthful and indelible record of a soldier's experience of the First World War.

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poetsPoems 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'.

No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by leading poets and biographers of our present day. Dying at twenty-five, a week before the end of the First World War, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) has come to represent a generation of young men sacrificed - as it seems to the next generation, one in unprecedented rebellion against its fathers - by guilty old men: generals, politicians, profiteers. Owen has now taken his place in literary history as perhaps the first, certainly the quintessential, war poet.

En esclatar la Primera Guerra Mundial, el 1914, molts anglesos es van sentir identificats i moguts per un optimisme i un patriotisme, hereu de la mentalitat victoriana, que associava la guerra a conceptes com l?honor, la gloria, el deure, la justicia, el prestigi i l?amor a la nacio. Wilfred Owen, com tants altres joves moguts per l?entusiasme o, qui sap, potser tambe per la por a oposar-se a aquella mena d?histeria col·lectiva, es va allistar per anar a combatre a les trinxeres de França. El que va viure alla no tenia res a veure amb la gloria, l?honor o la justicia. Poemes de guerra, l?unic llibre d?Owen, que va morir als vint-i-cinc anys just una setmana abans del final de la guerra, ha quedat com a recordatori de l?abus i la manipulacio per part del poder i de la inutilitat de la mort de tants innocents. Ell no va tenir mes temps per viure ni per escriure, pero els seus poemes, recollits i publicats postumament pel seu amic i tambe poeta Siegfried Sassoon, el fan mereixedor del lloc que ocupa entre els poetes anglesos mes importants i estimats. Wilfred Edward Salter Owen va neixer el 18 de març de 1893 a Oswestry, Anglaterra. Juntament amb Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves i Rupert Brooke, formen el nucli principal del grup de poetes conegut com The War Poets. Acabats els estudis, va fer un any de mestre ...

La razón de esta edición es la misma que tenía el poeta hace cien años cuando perdió la vida en una trinchera. Y el mensaje sigue siendo el mismo en lengua castellana que aquel que tuvo en inglés en 1918. Tal como escribió Owen, millones de personas murieron de guerra en el curso de aquel conflicto, pero nadie aprendió apenas nada y cien años después de su muerte soldados de diferentes colores siguen disparando sus armas en frentes abiertos en muy diversos puntos del planeta. Y hoy como hace cien años, no saben a quién disparan, ni por qué lo hacen y morirán asimismo sin saber por qué han vivido estas guerras ni por qué han muerto en ellas.

Se recogen en este libro, por vez primera en castellano y en edición bilingüe las más importantes poesías llamadas «de la guerra» del poeta y algunas de las cartas que mandaba desde las trincheras en