EDMUND BLUNDEN - AUTOGRAPH 12/06/1950 - HFSID 161191
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EDMUND BLUNDEN
The author signs his name on this 3x1½ card, dated in 1950
Signature: "Edmund Blunden/ Dec 6, 1950", in black ink, 3x1½
card. Edmund Charles Blunden, MC (1896 -1974) was an
English poet, author and critic who wrote mainly of his experiences in World War
I in both verse and prose. In August 1915 Blunden was commissioned as a second
lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment, taking part in the actions at Ypres
and the Somme, and receiving the Military Cross in the process. Blunden left the army in
1919 and took up the scholarship at Oxford that he had won while still at school
but Blunden found university life unsatisfactory and left to take up a literary
career. In 1920 Blunden published a collection of poems, The
Waggoner. Blunden's next book of poems, The Shepherd, published in 1922 won
the Hawthornden Prize, but his poetry, though well reviewed, did not provide
enough to live on. He finalized his career as Professor of Poetry at the
University of Oxford. He died of a heart attack at his home in Long Melford,
Suffolk, on January 20 1974, and is buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity
Church, Long Melford. Toned. Ink lightly faded (legible). Fine
condition.
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