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Undertones Of War
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Author : Edmund Blunden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Undertones Of War written by Edmund Blunden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Blunden, Edmund 1896-1974 categories.
Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) was one of the youngest of the war poets, enlisting straight from school to find himself in some of the Western Front's most notorious hot-spots. His prose memoir, written in a rich, allusive vein, full of anecdote and human interest, is unique for its quietauthority and for the potency of its dream-like narrative. Once we accept the archaic conventions and catch the tone - which can be by turns horrifying or hilarious - Undertones of War gradually reveals itself as a masterpiece. It is clear why it has remained in print since it first appeared in1928.This new edition not only offers the original unrevised version of the prose narrative, written at white heat when Blunden was teaching in Japan and had no access to his notes, but provides a great deal of supplementary material never before gathered together. Blunden's "Preliminary" expresses thelifelong compulsion he felt "to go over the ground again" and for half a century he prepared new prefaces, added annotations. All those prefaces and a wide selection of his commentaries are included here - marginalia from friends' first editions, remarks in letters, extracts from later essays, and asubstantial part of his war diary. John Greening has provided a scholarly introduction discussing the bibliographical and historical background, and brings his poet's eye to a much expanded (and more representative) selection of Blunden's war poetry. For the first time we can see the poet Blundenas the major figure he was.Blunden had always hoped for a properly illustrated edition of the work, and kept a folder full of possible pictures. The editor, with the Blunden family's help, has selected some of the best of them to include in this new edition.
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Author : Edmund Blunden
language : en
Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
Release Date : 2024-04-12T00:00:00Z
Undertones Of War written by Edmund Blunden and has been published by Rare Treasure Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-12T00:00:00Z with Biography & Autobiography categories.
First published in 1928, now public domain in the US. Using his gifts as a distinguished poet, Edmund Blunden masterfully shares memories from his service in combat along with the feelings they invoked in him. After enlisting at the age of twenty, he took part in the destructive battles of the Somme, Ypres, and Passchendaele, which he describes as “murder, not only to the troops but to their singing faiths and hopes.” Blunden’s autobiography conveys all the horrors of trench warfare, the struggle to comprehend the violence, and the strangeness of observing the war as both a soldier and a poet. With allusive and powerful prose, he conveys the fortitude and despair of his comrades, including the stunning acts of bravery that won him the Military Cross. Although Blunden left the war physically unscathed, he bore mental scars from it for the rest of his life.
Undertones Of War
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Author : Edmund Blunden
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2024-01-01
Undertones Of War written by Edmund Blunden and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In a beautifully-rendered memoir of the Great War, the English poet recounts his experiences in the combat zones of France and Flanders. Using his gifts as a distinguished poet, Edmund Blunden masterfully shares memories from his service in combat along with the feelings they invoked in him. After enlisting at the age of twenty, he took part in the destructive battles of the Somme, Ypres, and Passchendaele, which he describes as “murder, not only to the troops but to their singing faiths and hopes.” Blunden’s autobiography conveys all the horrors of trench warfare, the struggle to comprehend the violence, and the strangeness of observing the war as both a soldier and a poet. With allusive and powerful prose, he conveys the fortitude and despair of his comrades, including the stunning acts of bravery that won him the Military Cross. Although Blunden left the war physically unscathed, he bore mental scars from it for the rest of his life. Originally published in 1928, Undertones of War features thirty-two of Blunden’s poems inspired by the war. “An extended pastoral elegy in prose. . . . No one disagrees that together with Sassoon’s and Graves’s ‘memoirs’ it is one of the permanent works engendered by memories of the war. . . . It is the sheer literary quality of Undertones of War that remains with a reader.” —Paul Fussell “An established classic.” —D. J. Enright “A masterpiece . . . The best English book of its kind.” —Cyrill Falls
Undertones Of War
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Author : Edmund Blunden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1938
Undertones Of War written by Edmund Blunden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
Undertones Of War
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Author : Edmund Blunden
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2000-11-02
Undertones Of War written by Edmund Blunden and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Enlisting at the age of twenty in 1916, Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele, describing the latter as 'murder, not only to the troops, but to their singing faiths and hopes'. In his compassionate yet unsentimental prose, he tells of the endurance, heroism, and despair found among the officers and men of his battalion. The selection of Blunden's poems show how he found hope in the natural landscape; the only thing that survives the terrible betrayal enacted in the Flanders fields.
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Author : EDMUND. BLUNDEN
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Undertones Of War written by EDMUND. BLUNDEN and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Undertones Of War
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Author : Edmund Blunden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Undertones Of War written by Edmund Blunden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with categories.
Cricket Country
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Author : Edmund Blunden
language : en
Publisher: Pavilion Books, Limited
Release Date : 1985
Cricket Country written by Edmund Blunden and has been published by Pavilion Books, Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Cricket categories.
Fall In Ghosts
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Author : Edmund Blunden
language : en
Publisher: Carcanet
Release Date : 2014-07-01
Fall In Ghosts written by Edmund Blunden and has been published by Carcanet this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) moved among the ghosts of the Great War every day of his long life, having survived the battles of Ypres and the Somme. His classic prose memoir, Undertones of War, and his early edition of Wilfred Owen's poems were just two examples of the ways in which he sought to convey his war experience, and to keep faith with his comrades in arms. His poetry is suffused by this experience, and he was haunted by it throughout his writing life, as the men with whom he had served gradually joined the ranks of the departed. This selection of Blunden's prose about the First World War includes the complete text of De Bello Germanico, his first, lively sketch of the war as he lived it in 1916, alongside other essays and reflections. Deeply informed by his reading of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, and equally by his knowledge of the countryside, Blunden's vivid prose summons up for us what was human and natural in that most unnatural of environments, the battlefields of the Western Front.
Undertones Of War
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Author : Charles Blunden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1935
Undertones Of War written by Charles Blunden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1935 with categories.