Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974

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Name (Latin)
Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974
Other forms of name
Blunden, Edmund Charles, 1896-1974
Blunden, E. C. (Edmund Charles), 1896-1974
Date of birth
1896-11-01
Date of death
1974-01-20
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 17264985
Wikidata: Q725559
Library of congress: n 80069053
Uk: 000526746
Sources of Information
  • His Pastorals, a book of verses ... 1916.
  • His The harbingers, 1916:t.p. (E.C. Blunden)
  • ALCS database, 22 Mar. 2005(Edmund Blunden, born 1 Nov. 1896)
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Wikipedia description:

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

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