Not So Hidden Agendas: Wilfred Owen And His Early Editors
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Wilfred Owen is considered by many to be perhaps the best war poet
in English, if not world, literature. Yet, at the time of his death on
November 4, 1918, only five of his poems had been published. Thus, due to
his premature death, it is clear that Wilfred Owen was not responsible for
the develop ....
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.... problems immediately, as Sitwell and Sassoon argued over control of
the project. After the war, Edith Sitwell had begun to prepare the poems
for publication; she had even published seven of the poems in Wheels, the
magazine she edited, and was preparing to publish more. It was then that
Sassoon became involved. Sitwell, in a letter dated 3 October 1919, wrote
to Susan Owen (Wilfred's mother) and told her,
I wrote to Captain Sassoon, to ask him if he could
help me about the ....
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