Evidence: | 'Owen seems to have started reading Swinburne in earnest in 1916. When he returned to the front in 1918, knowing that he would kill and probably be killed, he took volumes of both Shelley and Swinburne with him, but after he had been in action he sent the Shelley back to Shrewsbury, keeping only Swinburne's "Poems and Ballads", the one book of poetry still in his kit at his death'. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 31 Aug 1918 and 2 Oct 1918 | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: on a battlefield | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Wilfred Owen |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 18 Mar 1893 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | soldier and poet |
Religion: | none |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | France |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Title: | [Poems] |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 21899 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Dominic Hibberd | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Owen the Poet | |
Place of Publication: | Basingstoke | |
Date of Publication: | 1986 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 56 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Dominic Hibberd, Owen the Poet (Basingstoke, 1986), p. 56, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21899, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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