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Record Number: 29803

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I am wanted at battalion headquarters. A review of my poems has been printed in the �Times Literary Supplement� (a kind review it was, if ever there was one!), and my Colonel has seen it and is overjoyed at having an actual author in his battalion. How rosy he looks!�

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 30 Jun 1916 and Sep 1916

Country:

France

Time

afternoon: after tea
evening

Place:

city: Givenchy (near B�thune)
county: Nord
specific address: 11th Royal Sussex Regiment Battalion HQ

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:

France

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Times Literary Supplement

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Times, 1916

Provenance

read in situ

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29803

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:

78

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, (Harmondsworth (Penguin Modern Classics edn.), 1982 (1928, 1937)), p. 78, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29803, accessed: 04 February 2026

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Additional Comments:

None