Wilfred Owen: A Biography
by Stallworthy, Jon
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 019211719X
- ISBN 13
- 9780192117199
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Synopsis
JON STALLWORTHY, born in 1935, was educated at Rugby, in the Royal West African Frontier Force, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize of Poetry. Formerly the poetry editor of Oxford University Press, Stallworthy is professor emeritus of English at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. He has published seven books of poetry. His biography of Wilfred Owen won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the W. H. Smith Literary Award, and the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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- Bookseller
- Fireside Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 058703
- Title
- Wilfred Owen: A Biography
- Author
- Stallworthy, Jon
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good/Price Clipped
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 019211719X
- ISBN 13
- 9780192117199
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press and Chatto and Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾"
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
- X weight
- 19 oz
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