Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974
Person
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:
J. Howard Woolmer collecton of Poetry Bookshop research and bibliographic materials, 1913-1988
Collection
Identifier: 1988-007
Scope and Contents
J. Howard Woolmer collecton of Poetry Bookshop research materials consists largely of Woolmer's research materials and pre-publication drafts of the bibliography but includes PBS manuscripts and ephemeral printing. The collection is organized into two series: Series 1: Correspondence: Joy Grant: letters from British writers and collegues of Harold Monro in reply to Grant as she wrote Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967) including correspondents...
Dates:
1913 - 1988
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