Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Reader: Wilfred Owen

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'He was certainly a keen student of literature, as can be seen from some 1907-8 exercise books which show him working ...Wilfred Owen Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'He was certainly a keen student of literature, as can be seen from some 1907-8 exercise books which show him working ...Wilfred Owen William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1900-1945'He marked personal details in Colvin's biography of Keats, particularly when they seemed to coincide with his own, no...Wilfred Owen John KeatsEndymionPrint: Book
1900-1945'He marked personal details in Colvin's biography of Keats, particularly when they seemed to coincide with his own, no...Wilfred Owen John Keats'Lamia'Print: Book
1900-1945'He marked personal details in Colvin's biography of Keats, particularly when they seemed to coincide with his own, no...Wilfred Owen Sidney ColvinLife Of John KeatsPrint: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h...Wilfred Owen Charles DickensPrint: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h...Wilfred Owen John MiltonPrint: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h...Wilfred Owen Walter ScottPrint: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h...Wilfred Owen [Elizabethan and Medieval Poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h...Wilfred Owen [literary biographies]Print: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h...Wilfred Owen [French books and books about French]Print: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h...Wilfred Owen [books on history, classics and botany]Print: Book
1900-1945'the first books in his library are Bibles. The largest is his mother's, who perhaps put it there. Brought up as a dev...Wilfred Owen BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'the first books in his library are Bibles. The largest is his mother's, who perhaps put it there. Brought up as a dev...Wilfred Owen [Scripture Union notes on the Bible]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Vict...Wilfred Owen [texts on science / religion debate]Print: Book
1900-1945'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Vict...Wilfred Owen [a Christian response to Darwinism]Print: Book
1900-1945'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Vict...Wilfred Owen John KeatsLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Vict...Wilfred Owen William Michael RossettiLife of John KeatsPrint: Book
1900-1945'He became especially interested in Shelley [and felt he could hear his 'music' in the Dunsden area] The "music" which...Wilfred Owen Percy Bysshe ShelleyRevolt of Islam, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'He became especially interested in Shelley [and felt he could hear his 'music' in the Dunsden area] The "music" which...Wilfred Owen [biography of Shelley]Print: Book
1900-1945'Another, much less predictable [than that of Shelley] influence on Owen's thinking at Dunsden and much later began in...Wilfred Owen Harold MonroBefore Dawn: Poems and ImpressionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading W.M. Rossetti's biography [of Keats] in 1912, he was overcome by its account of Keats's death: "Rossetti guid...Wilfred Owen William Michael RossettiLife of John KeatsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Laurent Tailhade] must have lent him one of his two volumes of collected poems because Owen soon started a translati...Wilfred Owen Laurent TailhadePoemes elegiaquesPrint: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re...Wilfred Owen Alfred de VignyChattertonPrint: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re...Wilfred Owen Ernest RenanSouvenirs d'enfance et de jeunessePrint: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re...Wilfred Owen Gustave FlaubertLa Tentation de saint AntoinePrint: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re...Wilfred Owen Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re...Wilfred Owen Gustave FlaubertSalammboPrint: Book
1900-1945'He is likely to have read a good deal of French verse as well as prose during the winter of 1914-15; there are severa...Wilfred Owen Paul Verlaine'Mon Reve Familier'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'He is likely to have read a good deal of French verse as well as prose during the winter of 1914-15; there are severa...Wilfred Owen [anthologies of French poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Owen seems to have started reading Swinburne in earnest in 1916. When he returned to the front in 1918, knowing that ...Wilfred Owen Algernon Charles SwinburnePoems and BalladsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Owen seems to have started reading Swinburne in earnest in 1916. When he returned to the front in 1918, knowing that ...Wilfred Owen Percy Bysshe Shelley[Poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Owen] bought [Harold] Monro's latest book, "Children of Love", and became a familiar visitor [at the Poetry Bookshop...Wilfred Owen Harold MonroChildren of LovePrint: Book
1900-1945'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to ...Wilfred Owen William Butler YeatsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to ...Wilfred Owen Rabindranath TagorePrint: Book
1900-1945'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to ...Wilfred Owen Alfred Edward HousmanPrint: Book
1900-1945'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b...Wilfred Owen Thomas HardyPrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetr...Wilfred Owen Harold MonroStrange MeetingsPrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetr...Wilfred Owen Georgian Poetry 1916-1917Print: Book
1900-1945'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetr...Wilfred Owen Rupert BrookePrint: Book
1900-1945'[that civilians could believe soldiers were happy in the trenches] is evident from plenty of civilian verse, includin...Wilfred Owen John Oxenham [pseud.]Vision Splendid, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'[another of Owen's poetic influences was] Brooke's friend W.W. Gibson, whose "Battle" (1915) Owen read in December [1...Wilfred Owen W.W. GibsonBattlePrint: Book
1900-1945'Nothing before "Le Feu" had given such an appallingly vivid description of trench warfare or combined it with such pa...Wilfred Owen Henri BarbusseUnder FirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Owen met H.G. Wells in November, one of the leading writers about the war and its politics, an advocate of internatio...Wilfred Owen Herbert George WellsPrint: Book
1900-1945'In December he read Lang's translation of the elegies by Bion and Moschus that had been Shelley's model for "Adonais".'Wilfred Owen Bion of Smyrna'Epitaph on Adonis'Print: Book
1900-1945'In December he read Lang's translation of the elegies by Bion and Moschus that had been Shelley's model for "Adonais".'Wilfred Owen Moschus'Epitaph on Bion'Print: Book

 

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