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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)

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