p. 6 ; Trudi Tate,Modernism, History and the First World War(Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1998 ), p. 5.
3 Jane Goldman,Modernism, 1910 – 1945 : Image to Apocalypse(London: Palgrave,
2004 ), pp. 88 – 9.
4 Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen, ed. John Bell (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1998 ), p. 351.
5 Ibid.,p. 360.
6 Dominic Hibberd,Owen the Poet(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986 ), pp. 182 – 3.
7 Merryn Williams,Wilfred Owen(Bridgend: Seren, 1993 ), p. 141.
8 Fran Brearton plausibly sees it as a pre-emptive strike against his readership’s
likely expectations (The Great War in Irish Poetry(Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2000 ), p. 55 ).
9 Craig A. Hamilton, ‘Genetic Criticism and Wilfred Owen’s Revisions to
“Anthem for Doomed Youth” and “Strange Meeting”’,English Language
Notes 38 ( 2001 ), 61 – 71.
10 Douglas Kerr speculates on Owen’s modernism inWilfred Owen’s Voices
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993 ), p. 10.
11 Owen,Selected Letters,p. 322.
12 Seamus Heaney,The Government of the Tongue(London: Faber & Faber,
1986 ), pp. xiv, xv.
13 Keith V. Comer,Strange Meetings: Walt Whitman, Wilfred Owen and the
Poetry of War,LundStudies in English 91 (Lund: Lund University Press,
1996 ), p. 155.
14 Immanuel Kant,Critique of Judgement, trans. Werner S. Pluhar (Indianapo-
lis: Hackett, 1987 ), p. 53.
15 Heaney,The Government of the Tongue,p. 108. On criticism of Kantian
aesthetics, see Paul de Man, Aesthetic Ideology, ed. Andrzej Warminski
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996 ); Terry Eagleton,The
Ideology of the Aesthetic(Oxford: Blackwell, 1990 ); and the replies inThe New
Aestheticism, ed. John Joughin and Simon Malpas (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2003 ).
16 Jean-Luc Nancy, ‘Of the Sublime’, in J.-F. Courtine et al.,Of the Sublime:
Presence in Question, trans. Jeffrey S. Librett (Albany: State University of New
York Press, 1993 ), p. 31.
17 James Najarian, ‘ “Greater Love”: Wilfred Owen, Keats and a Tradition of
Desire’,Twentieth-Century Literature 47 ( 2001 ), 20 – 38 (p. 28 ).
18 Quoted in Richard Ellmann,Oscar Wilde(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987 ),
p. 139 ;The Artist and Journal of Home Culture, 1 April 1893 ,p. 120.
19 Ellmann,Oscar Wilde,p. 71.
20 Andre ́Gide,Oscar Wilde(London: Kimber, 1951 ), p. 35.
21 Ibid.
22 Oscar Wilde,De Profundis,repr.inComplete Works of Oscar Wilde(London:
HarperCollins, 1999 ), p. 1031.
23 Owen,Selected Letters,p. 316.
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