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Owen's reputation as a war poet was quickly established immediately after the end of the war. A further 19 poems were added in an expanded second edition,
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in 1920. Owen had been killed on 4 November 1918. It has been described as "perhaps the finest volume of anti-war poetry to emerge from the War".
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The slim book was sold for six shillings. It included 23 poems, including some of his most famous work, such as including "
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The published volume included a sepia-toned photograph of the author in military uniform. It was edited by Owen's friend
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in 1931, and the total reached 80 (together with other fragments) in the collected poems published by
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The volume included the following poems, listed in the order they were included in the volume:
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Poems... with an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon, first edition, Chatto & Windus, 1920
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Sonnet On Seeing a Piece of our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action
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Dulce et Decorum est
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Wilfred Owen
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Anthem for Doomed Youth
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The Poems of Wilfred Owen
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