Wilfred Owen is considered by many to be perhaps the best war poet in English, if not world, literature. Yet, at the time of his death on November 4, 1918, only five of his poems had been published. Thus, due to his premature death, it is clear that Wilfred Owen was not responsible for the development of his own reputation. Instead, it was through the efforts of his editors that Wilfred Owen and his poetry were not …
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…work outside the myth of Wilfred Owen and reevaluate his poetry. Works Cited Blunden, Edmund. AIntroduction.@ The Poems of Wilfred Owen. London: Chatto and Windus, 1931. Breen, Jennifer. AIntroduction.@ Wilfred Owen: Selected Poetry and Prose. Routledge English Texts. London: Routledge, 1988. Lewis, C. Day. AIntroduction.@ The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen. London: Chatto and Windus, 1963. Sassoon, Siegfried. AIntroduction.@ Wilfred Owen: Poems. London: Chatto and Windus, 1920. Sitwell, Edith. Selected Letters. Eds. John Lehmann and Derek Parker. London: Macmillan, 1970.