2024 Wilfred Owen Birthday Lecture:  The Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen

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Jane Potter will discuss her new edition of Owen's Selected Letters.

Jane Potter will discuss her new edition of the Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen (Oxford University Press, 2023).Wilfred Owen’s fame as one of the great war poets of the twentieth century is unsurpassed, with ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ known as a defining piece of World War literature. Owen’s letters reveal the man behind the cultural icon; human with all his foibles, whose twenty-five years were marked by great highs and lows, by emerging modernity, and by the violence of war. Evocative, lyrical, and often surprisingly funny, the letters act as both autobiography and companion to the famous war poems. He was both an accomplished poet and one of the finest letter writers of the twentieth century.Accompanied by new notes and a new preface, as well as previously redacted and omitted material, this new edition of Owen’s Selected Letters brings together past and contemporary scholarship to provide fresh insights into Owen’s character and poetic development.

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