Update blurb - done!

[Ditte]

Hi,

I have an updated blurb for Wilfred Owen: Collected letters that I'd appreciate your help with!

Photos of copyright info from book: https://1drv.ms/i/c/eecb4666f38a6516/... and https://1drv.ms/i/c/eecb4666f38a6516/...

I've typed up the blurb from the book flap (picture for verification: https://1drv.ms/i/c/eecb4666f38a6516/...) and

I'd appreciate you replacing the following with what's currently listed:

'Wilfred Owen! This is a name that has gathered a continual accretion of fire. It glows. It lives clothed in flame.'

Sir Osbert Sitwell's words have a compelling truth. It is now almost fifty years since Owen was killed in France on 4 November 1918, years in which general recognition of his genius has steadily grown.

Poems of Wilfred Owen, edited by his friend Siegfried Sassoon, was published in 1920. Edmund Blunden's more comprehensive edition of 1931, with its long critical and biographical preface, spread more widely the realization that here was the most important poet of the Great War. Collected Poems, edited by C. Day Lewis, was published in 1963 (and was borne forward on the surge of the new interest springing from Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, a setting of twelve of the poems, including 'Strange Meeting' and 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'). It securely established Owen's place among the great poets.

Harold Owen's remarkable and moving autobiographical trilogy has prepared the way for the present Collected Letters. From Journey from Obscurity we learned of the poet's devotion to his mother; now we can see evidence of this. To her he addressed over five hundred and fifty of the six hundred and seventy-three letters here published. She preserved them all, from his first letter in 1898, when he was five, to his last, written four days before his death. To her, indeed, he unfolded his autobiography, the volume now presented to the reader as one of the most complete of such records in our literature. These vivid letters flood Owen's short life with light. They show the way in which he reached his memorable maturity as man and poet; and they illuminate the poems themselves.

[Ditte]

Hi. Just wondering if you need any further info to update this book? :)

[Ditte]

Bump

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Ditte wrote: "Bump"

Hi Ditte

There was nothing wrong with your information - its just that just about everything is really behind in this group now.

Added - except for the praise at the start as this is not allowed.

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[Ditte]

Hi Carol,

Thanks so much for adding the blurb, I really appreciate it.

Added "done" to the title as requested :)