Poems (Version 2)
Wilfred Owen
Read by Alan Mapstone
The English poet Wilfred Owen was killed on 4th November 1918 just seven days before the Armistice which ended the First World War. This book, published in 1920 and edited by his friend Siegfried Sassoon, contains his best known poems.
The poems were not well received initially because they did not fit with the mood of triumphalism after the war. But they have latterly come to be considered one of the most significant collections of war poetry of the 20th century both for their alternative view of war ("the pity of war") and for their technical innovation.
(Summary by Alan Mapstone) (1 hr 5 min)
Chapters
| Preface | 1:40 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Strange Meeting | 3:50 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Greater Love | 1:55 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Apologia pro poemate Meo | 3:06 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Show | 2:51 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Mental Cases | 2:38 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Parable of the Old Men and the Young | 1:32 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Arms and the Boy | 1:20 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Anthem for Doomed Youth | 1:29 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Send-off | 1:37 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Insensibility | 3:55 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Dulce et Decorum Est | 2:33 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Sentry | 3:25 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Dead-Beat | 1:54 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Exposure | 4:08 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Spring Offensive | 4:09 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Chances | 1:39 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| S. I. W. | 3:26 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Futility | 1:11 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Smile, Smile, Smile | 2:22 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Conscious | 1:31 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| A Terre | 5:38 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Wild with all Regrets | 3:44 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Disabled | 4:08 | Read by Alan Mapstone |