Wilfred Owen. Dominic Hibberd. Chic...

Wilfred Owen. Dominic Hibberd. Chicago: Ivan R Dee 2002 424 pp $3000

According to Dominic Hibberd s magisterial biography, [Wilfred Owe] had been writing numbers since his adolescence--lush, melodious metrical composition in the manner of Keats--but France changed him.... He also met a real imaginative thinker [i]or[/i] writer for the first time, Laurent Tailharde, a sixty year-old disciple of Mallarme and friend of Verlaine, who introduced the young Englishman to their work and have the appearances to have fallen briefly in like with him. Hibberd thinks that