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Edmund Blunden

Edmund BlundenAKA Edmund Charles Blunden

Born: 1-Nov-1896
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 20-Jan-1974
Location of death: Long Melford, Suffolk, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Holy Trinity Churchyard, Long Melford, Suffolk, England

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Undertones of War

Military service: British Army (Royal Sussex Regiment, 11th Batallion WWI)

Wife: Mary Davies (m. 1918, one son, one daughter)

    University: Queen's College, Oxford University
    Scholar: Fellow, Merton College, Oxford University (1931-44)
    Professor: English, Hong Kong University (1953-64)
    Professor: Poetry, Oxford University (1966-68)

    Military Cross

Author of books:
Pastorals (1916, poetry)
The Harbingers (1916, poetry)
The Waggoner and Other Poems (1916, poetry)
The Shepherd (1922, poetry)
Undertones of War (1928, poetry)
The Poems of Edmund Blunden, 1914-1930 (1930, poetry)
Thomas Hardy (1941, biography)
Shells by a Stream (1944, poetry)
Poems of Many Years (1957, poetry)
A Hong Kong House (1962, poetry)



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