10.5287/BODLEIAN4MT.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Pillbox
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
1928-01-01/1928-12-31
2011-11-30 23:54:55.777065
2011
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Folio
Page 293 from a first edition of 'Undertones of War' (1928) showing the poem 'Pillbox'. The prose section of the volume was written, apart from the help of a few maps, entirely from memory while Blunden was teaching in Tokyo between 1924 and 1927. Annotations in Blunden's hand added later at an unknown date. He notes that the poem was written '[Sept. 29, 1917. Tower Hamlets, Menin Road.]'