Record Number: 29819

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

‘I had to thrust aside my “Cambridge Magazine” with Siegfried Sassoon’s splendid war on the war in it. ’

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between Jul 1917 and Aug 1917

Country:

Belgium

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Near Ypres
West Flanders
other location: dugout near Yser Canal

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Edmund Blunden

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1 Nov 1896

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Army Officer and Poet

Religion:

Christian (Anglican)

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Belgium

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Siegfried Sassoon

Title:

To Any Dead Officer (Who Left School for the Army in 1914)

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Cambridge Magazine No. 6 August 1917

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29819

Source:

Print

Author:

Edmund Blunden

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Undertones of War

Place of Publication:

Harmondsworth (Penguin Modern Classics edn.)

Date of Publication:

1982 (1928, 1937)

Vol:

n/a

Page:

196

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, (Harmondsworth (Penguin Modern Classics edn.), 1982 (1928, 1937)), p. 196, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29819, accessed: 29 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

see also First World War Digital Poetry Archive http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/9849. This poem is assumed to be the text referred to since Sassoon's other antiwar polemic "Finished with the War: A Soldier's Declaration" was published elsewhere, though at the same time.