How Wilfred Owen became a poet
His letters are a deeply moving supplement to his poems
Daniel Swift
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The changing face of war and heroism
On War and Writing by Samuel Hynes is hardly about war at all. There is little about combat here, or the actual business of fighting and killing — what Shakespeare wryly called ‘the fire-eyed maid of smoky war/ All hot and bleeding’. Hynes is an august scholar of English literature and particularly the literature of
