Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974

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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 1 Collection or Record:

Blunden, Edmund

File

Identifier: 1988.012.1.221

Scope and Contents From the File:

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.

Dates: 1837 - 1990

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Richard Ellmann papers / Series 1: Research and writings / W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., Publishers / The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry / Individual poet files

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