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Undertones of War






DMUND BLUNDEN
252 pages | 5 1/4 x 8 | © 1928

“I took my road with no little pride of fear; one morning I feared very sharply, as I saw what looked like a rising shroud over a wooden cross in the clustering mist. Horror! But on a closer study I realized that the apparition was only a flannel gas helmet. . . . What an age since 1914!”








CONTENTS
Preliminary
Preface to the Second Edition

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
viii The 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
E. W. T.: On the Death of his Betty
Battalion in Rest
Vlamertinghe: Passing the Chatêau, July, 1917
Third Ypres
Pillbox
The Welcome
Gouzeaucourt: The Deceitful Calm
The Prophet
II Peter ii
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














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Undertones of WarAuthor Edmund Blunden
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Memoir
Publisher R. Cobden-Sanderson

Publication date 1928


Undertones of War is a 1928 memoir of the 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]
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Paul Fussell has called Undertones of War an "extended elegy in prose,"[3] and critics have commented on its lack of central narrative. Like Henri Barbusse's Under Fire and Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, the text presents a series of war-related episodes rather than a distinct, teleological narrative.

undertone
noun
UK
/ˈʌn.də.təʊn/ US
/ˈʌn.dɚ.toʊn/

undertone noun (CHARACTERISTIC)

[ C ]
a particular but not obvious characteristic that a piece of writing or speech, an event, or a situation has:
I thought her speech had slightly sinister undertones.
It was a comedy act with an undertone of cruelty.

[ C ]
a colour, smell, flavour, etc. that is part of something but not the most obvious part:
The elephant's pale grey skin carries undertones of violet.
The gin has a unique crisp flavour that is very well-balanced with light, sweet undertones.

Everyman's Library

Poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and short story writer James Mercer Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri on this day in 1902.

"Lenox Avenue: Midnight" by Langston Hughes

The rhythm of life
Is a jazz rhythm,
Honey.
The gods are laughing at us.

The broken heart of love,
The weary, weary heart of pain,-
Overtones,
Undertones,
To the rumble of street cars,
To the swish of rain.

Lenox Avenue,
Honey.
Midnight,
And the gods are laughing at us.

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From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this volume is a treasure-an essential collection of the work of a poet whose words have entered our common language.

Yale University Library

“Hold fast to dreams; for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” Happy birthday to American poet Langston Hughes (1902-1967)! This photograph of Hughes can be found in the Langston Hughes Papers at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library:http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/…/langston-hughes-papers-1…