Research Catalog

Title

The collected poems of Wilfred Owen / edited with an introduction and notes by C. Day Lewis and with a memoir by Edmund Blunden.

Author

Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918

Publication

• New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1965.
• ©1963

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972
• Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974.
• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

191 pages : facsimiles; 21 cm.

Summary

Introduced by a discussion of Owen's poetry and early life, this edition includes youthful and minor verses and the war poems based on manuscripts in the British Museum.

Series Statement

New Directions paperbook ; NDP210

Uniform Title

Poems

Alternative Title

Poems

Subjects

• Dust jackets > New York (State) > New York > 1965
• Poetry
• War poetry
• 1914-1918
• World War > (1914-1918)
• World War, 1914-1918 > Poetry

Genre/Form

• War poetry.
• Poetry.
• Dust jackets – New York (State) – New York – 1965.

Note

• Previous editions published under title: Poems.
• "A New Directions book" -- title page.
• In copy Berg Coll 22-1419: "New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin at Norfolk, Connecticut" -- title page verso.
• In copy Berg Coll 22-1420, 22-1421: "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.
• In copy Berg coll 22-1419: different dust jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed In (note)

• Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Binding (note)

• bound in publishers' yellow cloth.
• bound in publishers' paperback binding.

Contents

Wilfred Owen's Preface -- War Poems -- Strange Meeting -- Insensibility -- Apologia Pro Poemate Meo -- Greater Love -- The Parable of the Old Man and the Young -- Arms and the Boy -- Anthem for Doomed Youth -- The Send-Off -- Exposure -- The Show -- Spring Offensive -- Dulce et Decorum Est -- Asleep -- Futility -- The Last Laugh -- The Letter -- The Sentry -- Conscious -- A Terre -- Disabled -- Mental Cases -- The Chances -- The Dead-Beat -- S.I.W. -- Smile, Smile, Smile -- Inspection -- The Calls -- At a Calvary near the Ancre -- Le Christianisme -- Soldier's Dream -- Sonnet -- The Next War -- Other Poems, and Fragments -- The End -- The Unreturning -- Miners -- Happiness -- Shadwell Stair -- Six o'clock in Princes Street -- The Roads Also -- Hospital Barge at Cerisy -- Training -- Sonnet, to a Child -- To Eros -- My Shy Hand -- The Kind Ghosts -- Winter Song -- Music -- Storm -- To My Friend -- Fragment: Not one corner ... -- Fragment: Cramped in that funnelled hole ... -- Fragment: I saw his round mouth's crimson -- Fragment: As bronze may be much beautified -- Has your Soul Sipped? -- Minor Poems, and Juvenilia -- From my Diary, July 1914 -- On my Songs -- Antaeus: a Fragment -- The Promisers -- The Fates -- This is the Track -- O World of many World -- Song of Songs -- All Sounds have been as Music -- Bugles sang ... -- 1914 -- The One Remains -- To the Bitter Sweet-heart -- The Sleeping Beauty -- Sonnet Autumnal -- 'Long Ages Past' -- Purple -- Maundy Thursday -- To- -- Spells and Incantation -- The Imbecile -- Beauty -- Bold Horatius -- Elegy in April and September -- To a Comrade in Flanders.

Call Number

Berg Coll 22-1419

ISBN

• 0811201325
• 9780811201322

LCCN

64010290

OCLC

4921219

Author

Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918, author.

Title

The collected poems of Wilfred Owen / edited with an introduction and notes by C. Day Lewis and with a memoir by Edmund Blunden.

Publisher

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1965.

Copyright Date

©1963

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New Directions paperbook ; NDP210

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed In:

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 61

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1419, 22-1420 bound in publishers' yellow cloth. NN

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1421 bound in publishers' paperback binding. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1419, 22-1420, 22-1421 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Chronological Term

1914-1918

Added Author

Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972, editor.

Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-1419

Berg Coll 22-1420

Berg Coll 22-1421