Selected Poems by Edmund Blunden
Author of the legendary Undertones of War, Blunden is recovered as a major war poet.
`Just as it took time for us to recognise Undertones of War as the deepest of the Great War memoirs, so it has become increasingly clear that Edmund Blunden’s haunted, tender, painfully attentive poems will live as long as the language lives’ - Michael Longley
Edmund Blunden (1896–1974) grew up in Kent and went to school in Sussex at Christ’s Hospital; these were the formative landscapes of his boyhood. He joined the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1915, serving in France and Flanders. His collection The Shepherd (1922) made his reputation as a poet; his classic account of his military service, Undertones of War (1928) was written while he was teaching in Japan. He made his living by writing and editing, with two extended periods of teaching: as a Fellow of Merton College 1931–42, and as Professor of English at the University of Hong Kong 1953–64. He received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1956, and was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford 1966–68. His passions were poetry, book collecting, cricket, and the English countryside; he was haunted by his war experience all his life.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784106874 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784106879 |
| Title | Selected Poems |
| Author | Edmund Blunden |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd. |
| Year published | 2018-12-27 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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