Edmund Blunden
Edmund Blunden
EDMUND BLUNDEN d1974. English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in WW1 in both verse and prose. For most of his career, he 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