With reference to _The War Requiem_ perhaps there's an Owen specialist on
the list who can help me with a question that has been niggling at me for a
long time: "Strange Meeting" (so overwhelmingly) near the end is partly
radically different as a text from the printed version I know of Owen's
poem; I got so accustomed to it that when I returned to the printed version
I felt disappointed (where were the "sweetest wells that ever were"?) Did
Pears or someone rewrite the poem or find a draft by the poet?
Martin
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