biography
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Blunden, Edmund (Charles)
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| lived:
| (1896–1974)
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| biography:
| Poet and critic, born in Yalding, Kent, SE England, UK. He studied at Oxford, was professor of English literature at Tokyo (1924–7), and fellow of Merton College, Oxford (from 1931). He joined the staff of The Times Literary Supplement (1943), and from 1953 lectured at the University of Hong Kong. He later became professor of poetry at Oxford (1966–8). A lover of the English countryside, he is essentially a nature poet, as is evident in Pastorals (1916) and The Waggoner and Other Poems (1920), but his prose work Undertones of War (1928) is widely considered his best. |
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