title: The Poems of Wilfred Owen
author:  Wilfred Owen 
description: Of all the work bequeathed to us by that generation of young men who fought in the trenches, Owen's is the most remarkable for its breadth of sympathy and its understanding of human suffering and tenderness, at home and on the battlefield.
zlib_text: Poems by Wilfred Owen
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  Poems
  Wilfred Owen
  
  Poems by Wilfred Owen
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  Introduction
  In writing an Introduction such as this it is good to be brief. The poems
  printed in this book need no preliminary commendations from me or
  anyone else. The author has left us his own fragmentary but impressive
  Foreword; this, and his Poems, can speak for him, backed by the authority
  of his experience as an infantry soldier, and sustained by nobility and
  originality of style. All that was strongest in Wilfred Owen survives in his
  poems; any superficial impressions of his personality, any records of his
  conversation, behaviour, or appearance, would be irrelevant and unseemly.
  The curiosity which demands such morsels would be incapable of
  appreciating the richness of his work.
  The discussion of his experiments in assonance and dissonance (of
  which `Strange Meeting' is the finest example) may be left to the
  professional critics of verse, the majority of whom will be more
  preoccupied with such technical detail