Edmund Charles Blunden, CBE, MC was an English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden 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. Wikipedia
“Cricket to us, like you, was more than play,
It was a worship in the summer sun.”
Poem Pride of the Village (1925)
Festubert, 1916 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57255/festubert-1916 (1921)
Festubert, 1916 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57255/festubert-1916 (1921)
The Survival http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-survival/ (1921)
