Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974
Dates
- Existence: 1896-11-01 - 1974-01-20
Biography
Edmund Charles Blunden, CBE, MC was an English poet, author and critic.
Biography
In August 1915, Blunden was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Sussexx Regiment. He took part in the actions at Ypres and the Somme, winning the Military Cross. Blunden was the longest serving First World War poet, serving almost two years on the front line. His friend Siegfried Sassoon said that the "poet of the war most lastingly obsessed by it."
From the end of the war until 1970, Blunden worked as a poet, literary editor, journalist, biographer and lecturer. He taught in England, Japan, and Hong Kong. He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford University in 1966.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Arthur Crook - Edmund Blunden papers, 1948-1974
3 short manuscripts and over 130 letters, notes and post cards, most handwritten by Blunden.
Blunden, Edmund
Contents generally include: biographical information and drafts (often in multiple versions) of Ellmann's bio-commentary on each poet; selected poems by each author, photocopied from published sources; press cuttings of articles; rights and permissions to reprint poems; lists of corrections; and fragments of page proofs.
J. Howard Woolmer collecton of Poetry Bookshop research and bibliographic materials, 1913-1988
Miscellaneous literary manuscripts, correspondence and photographs
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