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Edmund Blunden
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.
Undertones of War
Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) was one of the youngest of the war poets, enlisting straight from school to find himself in some of the Western Front's most notorious hot-spots. His prose memoir, written in a rich, allusive vein, full of anecdote and human interest, is unique for its quietauthority and for the potency of its dream-like narrative. Once we accept the archaic conventions and catch the tone - which can be by turns horrifying or hilarious - Undertones of War gradually reveals itself as a masterpiece. It is clear why it has remained in print since it first appeared in1928.This new edition not only offers the original unrevised version of the prose narrative, written at white heat when ...
More Than a Brother
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Edmund Blunden
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Selected Letters of Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, 1919-1967: Letters 1919-1931
Of the sixteen World War I 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. Blunden, while still at Oxford, submitted some of his poems to the Daily Herald's Literary Editor (Sassoon) and thus began a friendship that lasted almost half a century. The intensity of their friendship allowed them to appraise each other's writing in ways which neither poet would have accepted from another critic. The strength of this bond is all the more remarkable as it had to endure periods where they did not meet for several years. This col...
Cricket Country
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Overtones of War
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.
Selected Letters of Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, 19191967 Vol 1
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.
