Edmund Blunden was involved in some of the worst fighting on the frontline of World War One A poem about VE Day written by acclaimed war poet Edmund Blunden has been published for the first time.

SHELLEY: A LIFE STORY (388 pp.)—Edmund Blunden—Viking ($3.75). This new biography has been greeted in England as the first really satisfactory life of England’s great romantic poet. U.S. critics ...

THE first five chapters of Edmund Blunden’s book on Shelley are written in a prose surprisingly slipshod and cumbersome. Two sentences taken at random will suffice to demonstrate this. The first ...

Edmund Blunden was 70 when he became Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, succeeding his friend Robert Graves, another of the Great War poets. I don't know how many of that talented group - ...

Rare manuscripts by war poet Edmund Blunden are being published online by Oxford University. The Edmund Blunden Collection, which is launched tomorrow, contains previously unseen material assembled ...

After centuries as the playing field of England’s budding politicians, Oxford University understandably plays its own games of academic politics in mock-heroic earnest. Harold Macmillan twice won the ...

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