Rupert Brooke & W. Owen Eman Poet Lib #23 (Everyman Poetry) [Paperback]

Rupert Brooke (Author), Wilfred Owen (Author), George Walter (Author)

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Series: Everyman Poetry | Publication Date: May 15, 1997

Two of Britains most celebrated war poems, Brooke and Owen,died tragically youngyet left an enduring legacy of work. Their accounts of life in the trenches have defined our understanding of the First World War.

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• Paperback: 104 pages
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Group, Ltd. (May 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0460878018
• ISBN-13: 978-0460878012
• Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 5.2 x 8.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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3.0 out of 5 stars wilfred owen & rupert brooke?, January 2, 2002

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This review is from: Rupert Brooke & W. Owen Eman Poet Lib #23 (Everyman Poetry) (Paperback)

That's an interesting combination of poets, considering how very different they were. Brooke was this handsome patriotic playboy and all his war-related poems are about the nobility of dying for your country, etc. He never actually fought. Owen was actually an officer in World War I and saw the worst of trench life, and many of his poems attempt (and succeed, in my opinion) in splashing mud all over Brooke's romanticized image of war and country. Brooke's poetry is very pretty, tidy, contained but Owen actually verges on being profound. Some of his work you just can't get out of your head. Anyway, get a book of Owen (The Poems of Wilfred Owen by Jon Stallworthy is the most complete compilation that I know of, but that basically means there's the bad stuff in there as well as the good ;) and skip Brooke.