Edmund Blunden

Edmund Blunden

Author: Barry Webb

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13:

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Blunden was the author of over a thousand poems, more than three thousand articles and reviews, and biographies of Shelly and Leigh Hunt, and he was the first major editor of John Clare and Wilfred Owen. Webb describes this active literary life and provides an account of Blunden's many influential friendships ( with Siegfried Sassoon, for example), of his three marriages and seven children, and of the intriguing relationship with his Japanese secretary.


First World War Poetry

First World War Poetry

Author: Jon Silkin

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1997-02-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780141180090

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A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.


English Villages

English Villages

Author: Edmund Blunden

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781853752476

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In this book, the author writes of the nature of the English village in general, and takes the reader on a nostalgic journey around the world of the village, the school, the farm, and village trades and games.


Selected Letters of Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, 19191967 Vol 1

Selected Letters of Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, 19191967 Vol 1

Author: Carol Z Rothkopf

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-10

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 1000161854

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Of the 16 WWI poets memorialized in Westminster Abbey, two were destined to become lifelong friends. Although both served on the Western Front, it was not until 1919 that Siegfried Sassoon received his first letter from Edmund Blunden. This collection of Sassoon and Blunden’s correspondence contains more than 1,000 letters, cards and telegrams.


Overtones of War

Overtones of War

Author: Edmund Blunden

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780715627396

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This collection is devoted to Edmund Blunden's war poetry. Blunden wrote more war verse than any other poet of the conflict, and wrote more movingly than any other on the difficult and painful legacy of war.