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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  

✵ 1. November 1896 – 20. January 1974
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Famous Edmund Blunden Quotes

“Cricket to us, like you, was more than play,
It was a worship in the summer sun.”

Edmund Blunden

Poem Pride of the Village (1925)

“Tired with dull grief, grown old before my day,
I sit in solitude and only hear
Long silent laughters, murmurings of dismay,
The lost intensities of hope and fear;
In those old marshes yet the rifles lie,
On the thin breastwork flutter the grey rags,
The very books I read are there—and I
Dead as the men I loved, wait while life drags.”

Edmund Blunden

Festubert, 1916 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57255/festubert-1916 (1921)

“Its wounded length from those sad streets of war
Into green places here, that were my own;
But now what once was mine is mine no more,
I seek such neighbours here and I find none.
With such strong gentleness and tireless will
Those ruined houses seared themselves in me,
Passionate I look for their dumb story still,
And the charred stub outspeaks the living tree.”

Edmund Blunden

Festubert, 1916 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57255/festubert-1916 (1921)

“At Quincy's moat the squandering village ends,
And there in the almshouse dwell the dearest friends
Of all the village, two old dames that cling
As close as any trueloves in the spring.”

Edmund Blunden

Poem Almswomen

“To-day's house makes to-morrow’s road;
I knew these heaps of stone
When they were walls of grace and might,
The country’s honour, art’s delight
That over fountain'd silence show'd
Fame's final bastion.”

Edmund Blunden

The Survival http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-survival/ (1921)

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