Landscape as Palimpsest: Wordsworthian Topography in the War Writings of Blunden and Sassoon.

This essay focuses on topography and the influence of poet William Wordsworth in the poetry of Edmund Blunden and Siegfried Sassoon. The author claims that both Blunden's and Sassoon's wartime poetry deals with the theme of the poet's relationship to nature, highlighting the conflict between the poet and the external world. The author discusses themes in Wordsworth's poetry, Blunden's book "Undertones of War," and Sassoon's "The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston."