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EDMUND BLUNDEN (1896 – 1974)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The poet Edmund Blunden was also an author, critic, scholar, editor, biographer, journalist, professor, teacher and lecturer.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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He is best known for his masterpiece Undertones of War<\/i>, considered to be one of the finest pieces of writing to come out of The First World War, and for his poetry of both war and peace.<\/div>\n
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While he was still at school at Christ\u2019s Hospital he started publishing his own poems, and at the age of 26 was awarded the Hawthornden prize for his volume The Shepherd<\/i>. In 1956 he received the Queen\u2019s Gold Medal for poetry.<\/p>\n

Concert Party Busseboom <\/em>was the only First World War poem selected to be read by the actor Daniel Mays at the Passchendaele Centenary Commemoration in Ypres in 2017. \u201cV Day\u201d was chosen for the British Prime Minister to recite to the nation and the rest of the world on the BBC to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of VE Day in 2020.<\/p>\n

Blunden was one of the longest serving First World War poets and saw continuous action in the front line between 1916 \u2013 1918. His lifelong friend Siegfried Sassoon maintained that Blunden was \u2018the poet of the war most lastingly obsessed by it\u201d. He suffered with PTSD to the very end of his life, and some time before his death said \u201cfor many days I have, it seems, lived in that world rather than this\u201d.<\/p>\n

English literature owes much to him for his biographical discoveries and critical originality; his pioneering work on John Clare, Wilfred Owen and Ivor Gurney made these poets available to the twentieth century reader for the first time.<\/p>\n

His nature poetry, written with the fine eye of a visionary, not only delves deep into the roots of humanity and our relationship with war, but also foreshadows the extremely serious environmental concerns we are facing today.<\/p>\n

Whatever world Blunden touched, be it literature, cricket, Japan and the Far East (two of his other great loves), he left it the richer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo taken by G.V Desani, early 1940s<\/i><\/p>\n

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