68481: Third Ypres

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posted on 2024-05-01, 14:50 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

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.

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Identifier

Creator

Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974)

Date

July 1917 to August 1917

Date Created

31/07/1917

Temporal Date

31/08/1917

Spatial

Ypres, Belgium

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Poem | Poem

Pages

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Number of Pages

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The Harry Ransom Center / The Edmund Blunden Literary Estate

Collection ID

The Edmund C. Blunden Collection | The Edmund C. Blunden Collection | The Edmund C. Blunden Collection | The Edmund C. Blunden Collection | The Edmund C. Blunden Collection

Repository Name

The Harry Ransom Center

Repository Address

The University of Texas at Austin, 21st and Guadalupe Streets, Austin, Texas, 78712, USA

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First World War Poetry Digital Archive World War One Poems

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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