Wilfred Owen's Voices: Language and Community

by Douglas Kerr

In this perceptive and original study of one of the most popular of English poets, Douglas Kerr has written the life of Wilfred Owen's language. The book explores the meaning in Owen's life of the family, the Church, the army, and English poets of the past. It examines the language of these four communities, and shows how their discourses helped to mould the poet's own. The language in which Owen's extraordinary poems and letters are written was learned...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198123701
• ISBN13: 9780198123705
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.8"