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  • Survivors' Songs

    From Maldon to the Somme

    by Jon Stallworthy ...
    From Homer to Heaney, the voices of men and women have seldom been more piercing, more poignant, than in time of conflict. For fifty years, Jon Stallworthy has been attuned to such voices. In Survivors' Songs he explores a series of poetic encounters with war, with essays on Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and others. Beautifully written, this moving book sets the poetry and prose ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Wilfred Owen

    by Jon Stallworthy ...
    Of all the poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen most fires the imagination today – this is the comprehensive literary biography of the greatest WW1 poetWilfred Owen tragically died in battle just a few days before the Armistice. Now, during the centenary year of his death, this biography honours Owen’s brief yet remarkable life, and the enduring legacy he left. Stallworthy covers his life ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • War Poet

    by Jon Stallworthy ...
    Jon Stallworthy wrote his first poems during school days shadowed by the Second World War and a mother's memories of a brother and friends killed in the First. At school he was introduced to the poems of Wilfred Owen, whose biography he would later write, and to those of others who would be represented in his Oxford Books of War Poetry. Many of the most anthologized and ambitious of his own poems— ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • W.B.Yeats: Last Poems

    by Jon Stallworthy ...
    Series series Casebooks Series
    This is a Bloomsbury Academic title. For our full Academic Catalogue, please visit https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/academic/ ... Read more

    $49.69 CAD

  • The New Oxford Book of War Poetry

    Edited by Jon Stallworthy ...
    Series series Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
    There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, ... Read more

    $8.79 CAD

  • The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry

    by Penguin ...
    THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION OF OUR MOST TREASURED WRITING ON THE MOST UNIVERSAL THEME, LOVE. FEATURING POETRY FROM EDGAR ALLEN POE, EMILY DICKINSON, CHRISTINA ROSSETTI AND MANY MORE.Love itself might be blind, but over millennia it has inspired some of the most perceptive and visionary poetry ever written - from the fragments of Sappho, to Shakespeare's sonnets and verses of Byron, Keats and Shelley ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen

    by Wilfred Owen ...
    'Orpheus, the pagan saint of poets, went through hell and came back singing. In twentieth-century mythology, the singer wears a steel helmet and makes his descent "down some profound dull tunnel" in the stinking mud of the Western Front. 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Poems of Wilfred Owen

    by Wilfred Owen ...
    The definitive single-volume edition of the work of the greatest poet of the First World War2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First World War. This is the definitive single-volume edition of Wilfred Owen’s poems, whose death in battle a few days before the Armistice was the most disastrous loss to English letters since Keats. Containing the texts of all the finished poems of Owen’s ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Translated by David McDuff ...
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