Edmund Charles Blunden
Male : Poet & Critic. Married Sylvia Norman in 1933 & Claire Poynting in 1945
Nationality : English
Place of Birth : London or Yalding, Kent
Date of Birth : 1896 Date of Death : 1974 Age : 78
Other Work : Journalist for The Atheneum. Prof of English in Tokyo 1924-7. Professor of Poetry at Oxford 1966-8
Education : Cleave's GS, Yalding, Kent & Christ's Hospital & Queen's College, Oxford
1914-1920
Poems (1914 PP)
- 100 copies
Poems Translated from the French (1914 PP)
- 100 copies
The Barn (1916 PP)
- 50 copies
Three Poems (1916 PP)
- 50 copies
The Harbingers : Poems (PP for G A Blunden, Uckfield)
- 200 copies
Pastorals : A Book of Verses (1916 Erskine Macdonald, London)
- 50 copies
The Waggoner & other Poems (1920 Sidgwick & Jackson)
1921-1925
The Bonadventure : A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday (1922 Cobden Sanderson)
The Shepherd & Other Poems of Peace & War (1922 Cobden Sanderson)
(1922 NY)
HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE
Christ's Hospital : A Retropsect (1923 Christophers, London)
To Nature : New Poems (1923 Beaumont Press)
- 310 numbered - Randolph Schwabe
(1923 Beaumont Press)
- de luxe signed 80 copies
Masks of Time : A New Collection of Poems (1925 Beaumont Press)
- 310 numbered
- Randolph Schwabe + de luxe signed 80 copies
The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry : Edmund Blunden (1925 Benn)
- pamphlet
1926-1930
English Poems (1926 Cobden-Sanderson)
On the Poems of Henry Vaughan (1927 Cobden Sanderson)
Lectures in English Literature given at Imperial University, Tokyo (1927 Kodokwan, Tokyo)
Undertones of War (1928 Cobden-Sanderson)
(1989
Folio Society)
Retreat (1928 Cobden-Sanderson)
(1928 Cobden Sanderson)
- signed Ltd Ed 112
Japanese Garland (1928 Beaumont Press, London)
- Eileen Mayo Ltd Ed 310)
+ de luxe ed of 80 numbered copie
Winter Nights : A Reminiscence (1928 Faber & Gwyer Ariel Poems) - Albert Rutherston
500 signed
Nature in English Literature (1929 Hogarth Press) - 3000 copies printed
Near and Far : New Poems (1929 Cobden Sanderson, London) - de luxe Ed 160 signed
(1930 Golden Hind Press NY) - 105 signed by author & H Charles Tomlinson
Leigh Hunt (1930 Cobden Sanderson) - d/w Rex Whistler
The Poems of Edmund Blunden 1914-1930 (1930 Cobden Sanderson) - Signed Ltd ed 200
De Bello Germanico : A Fragment of Trench History (1930 Blunden) - 250 copies
+ de luxe 25 signed
A Summer's Fancy (1930 Beaumont Press) - 325 + 85 signed by author & Randolph Schwabe
(In) The Best Poems of 1930 (selected by Thomas Moult) (1930 Cape)
1931-1935
In Summer (1931 PP for T F Armstrong, ie John Gawsworth) - 305
To Themis (1931 Beaumont Press) - Randolph Schwabe
Constantia and Frances : An Autumn Evening (1931 PP for friends of Elkin Mathews)
- 200 numbered
Votive Tablets : Studies Chiefly Appreciative of English Authors & Books
(1931 Cobden-Sanderson) - 60 signed
Fall In, Ghosts (1932 White Owl Press)
The Face of England (1932 Longmans Green)
Halfway House : A Miscellany of New Poems (1932 Cobden Sanderson)
We'll Shift our Ground, or Two on a Tour (1933 Cobden Sanderson) - novel with Sylva Norman
Charles Lamb and His Contemporaries : Lectures (1934 CUP)
(Compiler) Charles Lamb : His Life Recorded by His Contemporaries (1934 Hogarth Press)
The Mind's Eye : Essays (1934 Cape)
Choice or Chance : New Poems (1934 Cobden-Sanderson) - 45 signed
Edward Gibbon and His Age (1935 Bristol UP)
1936-1940
Keat's Publisher : A Memoir of John Taylor 1781-1864 (1936 Cape)
Verses to HRH the Duke of Windsor (1936 Alden Press for Edmund Blunden) - 100 signed
Uneasy Quiet (1936 & 1937 Corvinus Press, London) - 35 signed
An Elegy & other Poems (1937 Cobden Sanderson)
The Hurrying Brook (A Sonnet) (nd. 1938 No Publisher) - single leaf folded
1941-1950
Poems 1930-1940 (1941 Macmillan)
English Villages (1941 Collins Britain in Pictures)
Thomas Hardy (1941 Macmillan)
Shells by a Stream : New Poems (1944 Macmillan)
Cricket Country (1944 Collins)
Shelley : A Life Story (1946 Collins)
After the Bombing and Other Short Poems (1949 Macmillan)
Eastward : A Selection of Verses (1950 PP - 250 copies)
John Keats (1950 British Council / Longmans)
Edmund Blunden : An Anthology of His Poetry & Prose (1950 Hart-Davis)
AFTER 1951
Charles Lamb (1954 British Council / Longmans)
(Intro) The Castle of Indolence by James Thomson (1956 Hong Kong UP) - 1500
Poems of Many Years (1957 Collins 18/-)
War Poets 1914-1918 (1958 British Council / Longmans)
A Hong Kong House : Poems 1951-1961 (1962 Collins)
Guest of Thomas Hardy (1964 Toucan Press, Dorset)
Eleven Poems (1965 Golden Head Press, Cambridge) (1965 GHP - 21 signed)
A Selection of the Shorter Poems (1966 PP)
The Great Church of the Holy Trinity, Long Melford (1966 Long Melford, Suffolk 2/6)
- Booklet. cover design John Piper
The Midnight Skaters : Poems for Young Readers (1968 Bodley Head) - David Gentleman
A Selection from the Poems (1969 PP)
(Chosen & Intro) The Solitary Song by William Wordsworth
(1970 Bodley Head) - David Gentleman
Selected Poems (1982 Carcanet pb) - edited by Roy Marsack
Overtones of War : Poems of the First World War (1996 Duckworth £14.95)
READING
Michael Thorpe : The Poetry of Edmund Blunden (1971)
B J Kirkpatrick : A Bibliography of Edmund Blunden (1979 Clarendon Press, Oxford)
Barry Webb : Edmund Blunden : A Biography (1990 Yale UP)