"I took my road with no little pride of fear; one morning I feared very sharply, as I saw what looked like a rising shroud over a wooden cross in the clustering mist. Horror But on a closer study I realized that the apparition was only a flannel gas helmet. . . . What an age since 1914 "
In "Undertones of War," one of the finest autobiographies to come out of World War I, the acclaimed poet Edmund Blunden records his devastating experiences in combat. After enlisting at the age of twenty, he took part in the disastrous battles at the Somme, Ypres, and Passchendaele, describing them as...

Contents Include: Janus To Twelfth Night Jasmine Trouble at Twilight Expressions at the Market The Jays The British School The Fan Tod Young February Winter Proud Lent Passes Wills and Testaments The Starling's Nest "Theres Nought but Winning and Losing" No Hurry Great Hurry The Hop Leaf Evening Walks An Ancient Holiday The Sigh A Corner of the Meadow Summer and the Poets "While Fields Shall Bloom, Thy Name Shall Live" Imaginary Work The Tower Pastoral No Fable Art and Nature Just a Victorian Floodland Urn Burial Young Travellers The Winter Moth Fireside Collaboration Mists and Fogs The...

Contents Include: Janus To Twelfth Night Jasmine Trouble at Twilight Expressions at the Market The Jays The British School The Fan Tod Young February Winter Proud Lent Passes Wills and Testaments The Starling's Nest "Theres Nought but Winning and Losing" No Hurry Great Hurry The Hop Leaf Evening Walks An Ancient Holiday The Sigh A Corner of the Meadow Summer and the Poets "While Fields Shall Bloom, Thy Name Shall Live" Imaginary Work The Tower Pastoral No Fable Art and Nature Just a Victorian Floodland Urn Burial Young Travellers The Winter Moth Fireside Collaboration Mists and Fogs The...

This volume was based on lectures delivered by the author and offers a critical sketch of the English essayist Charles Lamb.