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.

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