Edmund blunden short biography

Edmund Charles Blunden (1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974) was an English poet, author, and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose.

For most of his career, Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong.

Edmund blunden short biography

Edmund blunden short biography

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He ended his career as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times.

Early years

Born in London, Blunden was the eldest of the nine children of Charles Edmund Blunden (1871–1951) and his wife, Georgina Margaret née Tyler, who were joint-headteachers of Yalding school.

Blunden was educated at Christ's Hospital and The Queen's College, Oxford.

World War I

In September 1915, during World War I, Blunden was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the British Army's Royal Sussex Regiment.

He was posted to the 11th (Service) Battalion (1st South Down), Royal Sussex Reg