Dulce et Decorum est

by Wilfred Owen

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This title provides illustrator Martin Impey's artistic interpretation of Wilfred Owen's renowned poem. Three years in the making, studying Owen's original manuscripts at The British Library, the English Faculty Library Oxford and consulting the Wilfred Owen Association, Impey skilfully executes not only the imagery that Owen creates in words, but also illustrates the underlying sentiment of - The Old Lie, 'It is sweet and fitting to die for your country'.… (more)

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An amazing poem I never want to forget. Even after all the years that have passed since WWI, I find myself both entranced and embittered by it. The great loss of life, of culture, of society, of marriages and children that could never be - and for what? (

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roseandisabella | Mar 18, 2022 |

I remember I had to study this poem in detail back in school when we were doing WWI in literature. The feelings it pulled from me, I still remember to this day.

Sweetly written, intimate and intricate, it's a poem I will always love.

And I hate poetry. (

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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama by X. J. Kennedy

A Quarto of Modern Literature by Leonard Brown

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The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest by Russ Kick

Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics by Chris Duffy

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A Study Guide for Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Michael L. LaBlanc

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This title provides illustrator Martin Impey's artistic interpretation of Wilfred Owen's renowned poem. Three years in the making, studying Owen's original manuscripts at The British Library, the English Faculty Library Oxford and consulting the Wilfred Owen Association, Impey skilfully executes not only the imagery that Owen creates in words, but also illustrates the underlying sentiment of - The Old Lie, 'It is sweet and fitting to die for your country'.

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