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Anthems for (Un)doomed Youth?: The Fairy Tales of Wilfred Owen
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 40, 2012
- pp. 218-230
- 10.1353/chl.2012.0000
- Article
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Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) is highly regarded, particularly for his poems about World War I. He also wrote little-known poetical versions of H.C. Andersen’s fairy tales—Little Claus and Big Claus and The Little Mermaid. These poems are investigated, particularly for the strategies Owen adopted for dealing with some of the problematic issues raised by Andersen's original tales.