Undertones of War
| Author | Edmund Blunden |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | R. Cobden-Sanderson |
Publication date | 1928 |
Undertones of War is a 1928
First World War, written by English poet Edmund Blunden. As with two other famous war memoirs—Siegfried Sassoon's Sherston trilogy, and Robert Graves' Good-Bye to All That—Undertones represents Blunden's first prose publication,[1] and was one of the earliest contributors to the flurry of Great War books to come out of England in the late 1920s and early 1930s.[2]
Synopsis
All Quiet on the Western Front
, the text presents a series of war-related episodes rather than a distinct, teleological narrative.
Reviews
According to Paul Fussell, in Blunden's “writing about horror and violence, understatement delivers the point more effectively than either idealism or heavy emphasis.”G.S. Fraser, meanwhile, has called the text "the best war poem," despite its prose form, and went so far as to print sections as poetry in the London Magazine.[5]
References
- ISBN 9780195133325.
- ISBN 9781408188446.
- ISBN 9780195133325.
- ISBN 9780195133325.
- ISBN 9780195133325.
External links
- Full text of Undertones of War at Internet Archive
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