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"The French Poetry of Wilfred Owen's Modernism"

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Owen's decision to teach English in Bordeaux in 1913 and his encounter with Laurent Tailhade was decisive for his poetry. By 1918 his exposure to French poetry was considerable, and included: Barbusse, Duhamel, Péguy, Verhaeren, Flaubert, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, Hugo, and the "Chanson de Roland." Perhaps he had also read Ronsard and Villon, but he probably never saw any of Robert Desnos's early poems. One of Desnos's poems offers an interesting counterpoint to his own meditations on war. The paper ends with a coda regarding Geoffrey Hill's views on Wilfred Owen.
Le choix d'Owen d'enseigner l'anglais à Bordeaux en 1913 fut décisif pour sa poésie. Il rencontre Laurent Tailhade et devient un lecteur de la poésie française (Barbusse, Duhamel, Péguy, Verhaeren, Flaubert, Hugo, Mallarmé, Apollinaire et "La Chanson de Roland." Cependant, il n'avait pas lu les premiers poèmes de Robert Desnos, dont un poème qu'on peut mettre en parallèle de sa poésie de guerre. En épilogue, une brève considération de Geoffrey Hill et Wilfred Owen.
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hal-04004620 , version 1 (25-02-2023)

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Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec. "The French Poetry of Wilfred Owen's Modernism". Arts of War and Peace, 2021, 3 (1), https://artswarandpeace.univ-paris-diderot.fr/2021/05/30/the-french-poetry-of-wilfred-owens-modernism/. ⟨hal-04004620⟩
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