Undertones of War

Name: Undertones of War
Author: Edmund Blunden

by Edmund Blunden

English memoir-poem blending personal experience with the devastation of World War One

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Edmund Blunden

English poet and critic who survived the Somme and whose Undertones of War is one of the finest prose memoirs of the conflict. His pastoral verse continues the tradition of John Clare.

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