Record Number: 29817

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

‘A French poet (there are as many in France as this side), Albert Satteau, who always added to his name the dignity “des Gens de Lettres", used to receive me kindly at “Le Home” near our rest camp, and we read together his clockwork rhymes from the local paper.’

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1917 and 1917

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Ambleteuse, near Boulogne
county: Pas-de-Calais
other location: probably private house near rest camp

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:

Albert Satteau

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29817

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:

188

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, (Harmondsworth (Penguin Modern Classics edn.), 1982 (1928, 1937)), p. 188, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29817, accessed: 15 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

No external evidence has been found of published works by Satteau. Internal evidence suggests the encounters took place in mid- to late spring.