Undertones of War.

Cover -- Edmond Blunden's Undertones of war -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- Abbreviations -- Chronology of Edmund Blunden's Life and Works -- Introduction -- A Note on the Poetry -- Textual History -- Part one: Undertones of War -- Preliminary -- I: The Path without Primroses -- II. Trench Education -- III. The Cherry Orchard -- IV: The Sudden Depths -- V: Contrasts -- VI: Specimen of the War of Attrition -- VII: Steel Helmets for All -- VII: IThe Calm -- IX: The Storm -- X: A Home from Home -- XI: Very Secret -- XII: Caesar went into Winter Quarters -- XIII: The Impossible Happens -- XIV: An Ypres Christmas -- XV: Theatre of War -- XVI: A German Performance -- XVII: Departures -- XVIII: Domesticities -- XIX: The Spring Passes -- XX: Like Samson in his Wrath -- XXI: The Crash of Pillars -- XXII: Backwaters -- XXIII: The Cataract -- XXIV: 1917 in Fading Light -- XXV: Coming of Age -- XXVI: School, not at Wittenberg -- XXVII: My Luck -- A Supplement of Poetical Interpretations and Variations -- A House in Festubert -- The Guard's Mistake -- Two Voices -- Illusions -- Escape -- Preparations for Victory -- Come On, My Lucky Lads -- At Senlis Once -- The Zonnebeke Road -- Trench Raid near Hooge -- Concert Party: Busseboom -- Rural Economy: (1917) -- E.W.T.: On the Death of his Betty -- Battalion in Rest -- Vlamertinghe: Passing the Château, July, 1917 -- Third Ypres -- Pillbox -- The Welcome -- Gouzeaucourt: The Deceitful Calm -- The Prophet -- II Peter ii, 22 (1921) -- Recognition -- La Quinque Rue -- The Ancre at Hamel: Afterwards -- 'Trench Nomenclature' -- A.G.A.V. -- Their Very Memory -- On Reading that the Rebuilding of Ypres Approached Completion -- Another Journey from Béthune to Cuinchy -- Flanders Now -- Return of the Native* -- The Watchers -- Part two: Supplementary Text.

A Further Supplement of Poems (2015): Compiled by the Editor with Notes -- The Festubert Shrine -- Festubert: The Old German Line -- In Festubert -- Thiepval Wood -- 'Transport Up' at Ypres -- Les Halles d'Ypres -- Clear Weather -- Trees on the Calais Road -- Mont de Casse -- Clare's Ghost -- Malefactors -- 1916 seen from 1921 -- A Farm near Zillebeke -- The Aftermath -- The Midnight Skaters -- Warning to Troops -- An Infantryman -- Inaccessibility in the Battlefield -- Report on Experience -- Into the Salient -- Premature Rejoicing -- Winter Stars -- The Memorial 1914-1918 -- The Branch Line -- 'Can You Remember?' -- On a Picture by Dürer: 'Sonnenuntergang' -- Exorcized: Written in October 1938 -- In May 1916: Near Richebourg St.Vaast -- Farm behind Battle Zone -- Company Commander, 1917 -- The Halted Battalion -- Ancre Sunshine -- 1917 Diary -- Notes to the Prose Text of Undertones of War -- Notes to 'A Supplement of Poetical Interpretations and Variations' -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Titles and First Lines -- Index.

A beautifully illustrated edition of Edmund Blunden's rich prose memoir, John Greening couples the original and unrevised version of the text with the best of Blunden's own annotations, commentaries, and illustrations.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.