In the following excerpt, Ramazani examines Owen's challenge to received notions of elegiac conventions in his poetry.

In the following excerpt, Butler examines Owen's unconscious personal conflicts as a source of his poetry's power.

In the following excerpt, Musil examines Owen's challenging of patriarchal notions of nationalism, masculinity, and sexuality in his poems.

In the following excerpt from his book-length critical study, Welland examines the conflict between patriotism and Christianity in Owen's poetry.

In the following excerpt, Parsons praises Owen's fine sensibility and rich imagination as a realist poet.

In the following excerpt, Norgate commends Owen's poetic need to "break out of the closed circle of meaning guarded by the Soldier Poets."

In the following excerpt, Cohen explores the spiritual source of Owen's poetry.

In the following excerpt, Banerjee supports Yeats's controversial negative view of Owen's poetry and concludes that Owen is overrated as a poet.

In the following excerpt, Spear explores Owen's concept of poetic truth, which she believes was arrived at through disillusion with his own earlier poetry.

In the following excerpt, Day Lewis admires the poetic maturity evident in Owen's war poems.

In the following excerpt, Murry lauds Owen's Poems and argues that the author was the greatest poet of World War I.

In the following excerpt, Graves focuses on the issues of wartime censorship and propaganda revealed in Owen's "The Letter. "

In the following excerpt from an essay that was written in 1946, Thomas hails Owen as "a poet of all times, all places and all wars."

In the following excerpt, Blunden explores the influences on Owen's poetry and characterizes his poems as richly imaginative and distinguished by a "spiritual and mental dignity."