Edmund Blunden photograph

Edmund Blunden

Use attributes for filter !
Gender Male
Death50 years ago
Date of birth November 1,1896
Zodiac sign Scorpio
Born London
United Kingdom
Date of died January 20,1974
DiedLong Melford
United Kingdom
Children seven
SpouseMary Daines
Job Poet
Education University of Oxford
Christ's Hospital
The Queen's College, Oxford
Christ's Hospital; The Queen's College, Oxford
Notabl awardQueen's Gold Medal for Poetry
Notabl workAn Elegy and Other Poems
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID469438

Undertones of War
Selected poems
English Villages
Cricket country
The waggoner and other poems
The Bonadventure: A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday
Shelley: A Life Story
Fall In, Ghosts: Selected War Prose
Overtones of War
The Shepherd and Other Poems of Peace and War
The face of England
Nature in English literature
Charles Lamb and His Contemporaries
After the bombing
A Hong Kong house
Votive Tablets: Studies Chiefly Appreciative of English Authors and Books
The mind's eye
Up the Line to Death
Thomas Hardy
War poets, 1914-1918
Edward Gibbon and his age
Keats's publisher
The War of the Guns: Western Front, 1917-1918
Leigh Hunt and His Circle
More than a brother
On Shelley
Shakespeare to Hardy: Short Studies of Characteristic English Authors Given in a Series of Lectures at Tokyo University
Wayside Poems of the Early Eighteenth Century
War Poets, 1914-18
John Clare: beginner's luck
Leigh Hunt's "Examiner" Examined: Comprising Some Account of that Celebrated Newspaper's Contents, &c. 1808-25, and Selections, by Or Concerning Leigh Hunt, Lamb, Keats, Shelley, and Byron, Illustrating the Literary History of that Time, for the Most Part Previously Unreprinted
English scientists as men of letters
Tradition and Experiment in Present-day Literature: Addresses Delivered at the City Literary Institute
Poets of the Great War Audio Cassette Sets (2 Audio Cassettes): Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke and Many Others
Lectures in English literature
Reprinted Papers, Partly Concerning Some English Romantic Poets
Wayside sonnets, 1750-1850
Guest of Thomas Hardy
William Crowe (1745-1829)
Three Young Poets: Critical Sketches of Byron, Shelley and Keats
Tribute to Walter de la Mare
Sons of Light: A Series of Lectures on English Writers
Chaucer to B. V. : With an Additional Paper on Herman Melville; a Selection of Lectures Given Chiefly at Tokyo University
Shelley's Defence of Poetry and Blunden's Lectures on Defence.
Shakespeare's Significances: A Paper Read Before the Shakespeare Association
Send edit request

Edmund Blunden Life story


Edmund Charles Blunden CBE MC was an English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong.

Edmund Blunden Photos

Related Persons

Next Profile ❯