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escuan - the definition is repetitive and the wordplay is the rest of the clue giving an "I T rant"! The omitted letter is e. Hope this helps.

It would seem that 28 down has two sets of wordplay. The first set leads to (g)(eye) and the second set leads to (gey)(e). Why two sets I have not surmised.

Thanks smartie. Very odd to have double wordplay, but either way you have confirmed what I have entered in the grid, with "r" being the surplus letter.

Thank you, Smartie. Easy when you see it! No wonder I thought there was too much clue at 28 down!

Got there eventually but 7d I can't parse. I think it must be RESORT with the S omitted. ORT is a scrap but in my Chambers I can't see how RESORT can be defined as a country or R/RE short for rendezvous unless I have this completely wrong.
Also 4d - I have a pudding described as a sweet dish in Chambers - can't find it referred to as "stale" anywhere.

Hi binks,
7d. Chambers gives (general) resort as a definition of rendezvous, country being used to indicate dialect.
4d. Stale indicates archaic or no longer in general use dowset is referred to douce, again from Chambers.

Thanks Ginge
My thinking was wrong in both cases. Nice to complete the Listener with the right answers but even better to properly understand the subtleties.
I would argue with Tangram that dialects apply to urban areas just as much as to the country but I have to admit stale for archaic is clever and fair.

This was a straightforward puzzle finished on Saturday afternoon (no need to burn the midnight oil or even carry the puzzle over into Sunday or Monday, as I had to do with some recent puzzles). The preamble was generous - there was no need to mention that the two words missing from the quotation were used in clues. If I'd been setting this puzzle, I'd have had the two clues where the missing words appear (with some minor tweaking) as wordplay only, leaving solvers to work out that the definitions were the two missing words.

Fortunately, I'd started with the later down clues, so identified the author quickly and a look at the Wikipedia article for the author gave the poem right away.

As regards the puzzle title, I wonder whether we are supposed to read this thematically as (P)revision - the poem could be regarded as a prevision of the author's death during the Battle of the Somme on 4 July 1916.