Third Ypres

Item

Title

Identifier

9410.cpd

Creator

Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974)

Abstract

Manuscript in ink in Edmund Blunden's hand. Corrections in ink. Published in 'The Shepherd', (1922) and 'Undertones of War' (1928). Various drafts of the poem survive. The subject of the poem is the attack at Passchendaele on 31 July 1917 and the proceeding days.

Date

July 1917 to August 1917

Date Created

1917-07-31

Temporal Coverage

1917-08-31

Spatial Coverage

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Poem

number of pages

5

Contributor

Alisa Miller