Epic, interesting and a must have for poets or poet lovers ( )

Interesting to read along with Sassoon, who of course he met at Craiglockhart Hospital. Favourites: “Anthem for Doomed Youth” and “The Parable of the Old Men and the Young”.

'Tis a pitifully small collection of poems gathered here, considering Owen is often called the best of the World War I poets.
His "Dulce et Decorum Est" is perhaps one of the most anthologized English poems from that era. Easily accessible, I can remember reading and pondering it when I was still in high school. That poem and several others in this slim volume still apply. Wars never really resolve anything, and yet they go on and on, as if humankind never learns anything at all. This collection is gem-like, marred only by a few incompleted fragments, and I wondered why they were even included. Probably because there were so few finished poems, a true tragedy of that war. Just twenty-five years old and only beginning to find his voice as poet, Wilfred Owen died a week before the armistice. And yet he lives on in these poems, THE WORKS OF WILFRED OWEN. An important book for any collector of serious literature. ( )

Five stars, not for the quality of the book, that could have been better, but for the quality of the poetry that brought me to tears. A small book that I will treasure ( )