Poems With An Introduction By Siegfried Sassoon Owen, Wilfred Modern First Editions

First edition. 8vo. Rebound in modern red morocco, gilt titles to spine. A very good copy indeed, with some light spotting. Frontispiece photogravure of Owen. The author's first collection of poems, published following his death in action on the Sambre Canal in 1918, just a week before Armistice. The book is regarded as containing some of the finest and certainly the most resonant poetry to come out of the Great War. "Owen. had the genius to come through the rage and frustration or even the dearth of feeling of many war poets and so to write the first understanding poems about the shell-shocked, about gas, about the enemy" (Cyril Connolly - The Modern Movement). Connolly 36