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This paper argues that Keith Douglas’s art is centrally about the condensation or simplification of emotion into image. It examines Douglas’s approaches to writing war. By looking at the several modes of Douglas’s war writing (autobiography, letters, poetry and the short story), it traces the evolution of the autobiographical into the poetical and outlines Douglas’s aesthetic strategies of turning (war) experience into art or, on a more general level, demonstrates how life-writing translates itself into poetry.