Edmund Charles Blunden CBE MC (1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974) was an English poet, author, and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote...
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'50s, and there was also a team for a brief period in the 1980s. Poet Edmund Blunden, a fanatical (although untalented) cricketer who celebrated his love...
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English cricketer Bill Blunden, British television and film editor Bill Blunden (author), non-fiction writer Edmund Blunden (1896–1974), English poet...
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deliberately take chances with my life." Siegfried Sassoon and his friend Edmund Blunden (whose First World War service had been in a different regiment) took...
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Siegfried Sassoon with the assistance of Edith Sitwell (in 1920) and Edmund Blunden (in 1931). Poems (1920) has "Bitten": plausible, as the topic is "cud"...
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of Bury St Edmunds, was born in Melford Sir Roger Martyn, Lord Mayor of London in 1567, was born here The World War I poet Edmund Blunden lived, and is...
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which contained poems written in 1911 and 1912. The group included Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, D. H. Lawrence, Walter de la Mare, Siegfried...
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Divion and Beaucourt threatened the German hold on Serre further north. Edmund Blunden called the battle "a feat of arms vieing [sic] with any recorded. The...
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Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke and Many Others. (edited by Adrian Barlow)...
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distinguished personages, including Sir John Betjeman; Lady Diana Cooper; Edmund Blunden; Nancy Mitford; Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort; Lynne Redgrave;...
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Gerald Finzi's "For Saint Cecilia", Op. 30, was set to verses written by Edmund Blunden; Michael Hurd's 1966 composition "A Hymn to Saint Cecilia" sets John...
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their contemporaries such as A. E. Housman, Walter de la Mare, and Edmund Blunden used the lyric form. The Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore was praised...
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Sackville-West – Wilfred Owen – Lilian Bowes Lyon – Robert Graves – Edmund Blunden – F. R. Higgins – William Soutar – Roy Campbell – C. Day-Lewis – John...
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World War I poet Edmund Blunden. On sabbatical from Vassar College in 1982–1983, Mallon spent a year as a visiting scholar at St. Edmund's House (later College)...
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book Corduroy, published in 1930. Bell's friend, the author and poet Edmund Blunden, advised him and helped secure his first publishing deal. Corduroy was...
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Howard and A. B. B. Valentine, publishing work by L. A. G. Strong, Edmund Blunden, John Strachey, and Maurice Bowra. His essays, short stories, and reviews...
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Portrait of Leigh Hunt. Croom Helm, 1985 Blunden, Edmund, Leigh Hunt. A Biography. Cobden-Sanderson, 1930 Blunden, Edmund, Leigh Hunt's Examiner Examined. Cobden-Sanderson...
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Elder & Company, London, 1898. Charles Lamb and His Contemporaries, by Edmund Blunden, Cambridge University Press, 1933. Companion to Charles Lamb, by Claude...
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also wrote larger-scale choral works such as For St. Cecilia (text by Edmund Blunden), Intimations of Immortality (William Wordsworth) and the Christmas...
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Voice which were broadcast by Orwell, Mulk Raj Anand, John Atkins, Edmund Blunden, Venu Chitale, William Empson, Vida Hope, Godfrey Kenton, Una Marson...
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John Milton, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Robert Bridges and Edmund Blunden. However, his oeuvre includes well-regarded concerti for clarinet and...
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poets like Nichols, Sassoon and Owen, as well as later writers such as Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, and Richard Aldington, have come to define the experience...
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the preparation of a new and fuller edition of the poems in 1931 by Edmund Blunden that ensured his popularity, coupled with a revival of interest in his...
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Herbert Asquith - Maurice Baring - Hilaire Belloc - Laurence Binyon - Edmund Blunden - F. S. Boas - Eva Gore-Booth - Gordon Bottomley - F. W. Bourdillon...
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Ebenezer Elliott Ebenezer Jones Eden Phillpotts Edgar Allan Poe Edmund Blunden Edmund Spenser Edmund Waller Edward FitzGerald Edward Thomas Edward Thurlow, Lord...
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in Sendai. Hodgson had joined Edmund Blunden in Japan and the two established a close friendship during the time Blunden was writing Undertone of War....
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series included Norman MacMillan, Mabel Lethbridge, Edgar von Spiegel, Edmund Blunden, Martin Niemöller, John Shea, Hans Howaldt, William Ibbett, Marthe Bibesco...
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2021. "Edmund Blunden, British Poet, Dies". The New York Times. 22 January 1974. Page 42, column 1. Retrieved 8 July 2023. "The Edmund Blunden Collection"...
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Leonard Barnes - Paul Bewsher - Laurence Binyon - John Peale Bishop - Edmund Blunden - Rupert Brooke - Leslie Coulson - E. E. Cummings - Jeffery Day - Geoffrey...
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Undertones of War (category Books by Edmund Blunden)
War is a 1928 memoir of the First World War, written by English poet Edmund Blunden. As with two other famous war memoirs—Siegfried Sassoon's Sherston trilogy...
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