No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the
First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning s
et of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an e
ssential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by leading poets and
biographers of our present day. Dying at twenty-five, a week before the end of
the First World War, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) has come to represent a generation
of young men sacrificed - as it seems to the next generation, one in unpreceden
ted rebellion against its fathers - by guilty old men: generals, politicians, pr
ofiteers.
