Guy Cuthbertson is senior lecturer in English literature at Liverpool Hope University and an expert on the First World War poets.
“[A] vigorous, well-documented narrative, with fresh light to cast
on some central themes. It is excellent on the Shropshire
background, on Owen’s educational career…and on the curious life he
led as an émigré in France. It offers too some intelligent analysis
of Owen’s growing technical accomplishment as a poet.”—Rowan
Williams, New Statesman
*New Statesman*
“[H]ere is an elegantly written, penetrating and stirring
biography.”—John Preston, The Daily Mail
*The Daily Mail*
“Cuthbertson’s biography is admirably thorough in its unpacking of
Owens’s poetic imagery. There is no reference that is
unexplored.”—Daisy Goodwin, The Sunday Times
*The Sunday Times*
“[Cuthbertson] writes with such sincerity, telling the story of
Owen’s short life and journey from provincial obscurity to the
carnage on the western front and then to posthumous fame as a ‘war’
poet with diligence and empathy.”—Jason Cowley, The Financial
Times
*The Financial Times*
“Invaluable insight into a man whose words will be heard often
during the upcoming WWI centennial.”—Booklist (starred review)
*Booklist *
“Cuthbertson is scrupulous, thoughtful and open-minded. His book is
fired with enthusiasm for the poems and respect for the man who
created them. The result is a fine biography.”—John Sutherland, The
Times
*The Times*
‘Guy Cuthbertson’s book is an amiable and admiring account of
Wilfred Owens’s slow and often painful discovery of himself, as he
made his way from railwayman’s son to Army officer and – after his
death in battle – to famous poet.’—Derwent May, Standpoint
Magazine
*Standpoint Magazine*
‘[Cuthbertson] score[s] highly as a sensitive and admiring critic
of the poetry. . .attuned to the ironies and contradictions of his
subject, whom he (surely correctly) portrays as an eternal child
and swirling mass of contradictions.’—Nigel Jones, The Sunday
Telegraph
*The Sunday Telegraph*
‘For a long time Owen has been set in stone, his poetry ossifying
into anti-war cliché. Cuthbertson has made him live again.’—Gary
Day, THES
*THES*
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