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Edmund Blunden

Born

in London, England

November 01, 1896

Died

January 20, 1974

Website

http://www.edmundblunden.org/

Genre

Poetry, Biographies & Memoirs, History

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Author, critic, and poet (the latter which for which he is most well known) Edmund Charles Blunden was born in London, and educated at The Queen's College at Oxford. In 1915 he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant with the Royal Sussex Regiment which he served with through the end of the war. He saw heavy action on the Western Front at both Ypres and the Somme, and was awarded the Military Cross. Miraculously he was never severely injured.

Following the war he served as Professor of English at the University of Tokyo from 1924-1927. He returned to England as magazine editor, and in 1931 he became a tutor at Oxford University where his writing career flourished. Post Second World War he became Professor of English Literature in Hong Kong. ...more

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	Undertones of War 3.69 avg rating — 1,013 ratings — published 1928 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems by Edmund Blunden, Robyn Marsack (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shelley: A Life Story 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1976 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Waggoner And Other Poems (1920) 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2007 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	English Villages (Writer's Britain Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1945 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cricket Country 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1945 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Face of England: In a Series of Occasional Sketches really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fall in, Ghosts: The War Prose of Edmund Blunden by Edmund Blunden, Robyn Marsack (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shepherd; And Other Poems of Peace and War 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1922 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writers & Their Work: Charles Lamb 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1964 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Cricket to us was more than play,
It was a worship in the summer sun.”
― Edmund Blunden

tags: cricket, summer

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“Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,
Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.”
― Edmund Blunden

tags: history, inheritance, modernism

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“They died in splendour, these who claimed no spark
Of glory save the light in a friend's eye.”
― Edmund Blunden

tags: flanders-now, poetry, wwi

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