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dissolved in 1945. The same year, he married Claire Margaret Poynting (1918–2000), one of his former pupils. Together, they had four daughters, who included Margaret, Lucy, and Frances. While in Japan in the summer of 1925, he met Aki Hayashi, and he began a relationship. When Blunden returned to England in 1927, Aki accompanied him and would become his secretary. The relationship later changed from a romantic one to a platonic friendship, and they remained in contact for the rest of her life.
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Blunden was married three times. While still in the army, he met and married Mary Daines in 1918. They had three children, the first of whom died in infancy. They divorced in 1931, and in 1933, Blunden married Sylva Norman, a young novelist and critic. That marriage, which was childless, was
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in October 1917), but for the rest of his life, he bore mental scars from his experiences. With characteristic self-deprecation, he attributed his survival to his diminutive size, which made "an inconspicuous target". His own account of his experiences was published in 1928, as
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is bound to have a special charm of its own. As Blunden says, "The game which made me write at all, is not terminated at the boundary, but is reflected beyond, is echoed and varied out there among the gardens and the barns, the dells and the thickets, and belongs to some wider
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Blunden had a robust sense of humour. In Hong Kong, he relished linguistic misunderstandings such as those of the restaurant that offered "fried prawn's balls" and the schoolboy who wrote, "In Hong Kong there is a queer at every bus-stop".
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The test of a true cricketer is that he shall prefer village cricket to 'good' cricket friendliest memories are of the informal village game, where everyone plays in braces, where the
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is liable to be called away in mid-innings on an urgent job, and sometimes, about the time when the light begins to fail, a ball driven for four kills a rabbit on the boundary.
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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
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For conspicuous gallantry in action. He displayed great courage and determination when in charge of a carrying party under heavy fire. He has previously done fine work.
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Blunden left the army in 1919 and took up the scholarship at Oxford that he had won while he was still at school. On the same English literature course was
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regularly opened the batting for a publisher's eleven in the 1930s (Blunden insisted on batting without gloves). An affectionate obituary tribute in
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His fellow poets' regard for Blunden was illustrated by the contributions to a dinner in his honour for which poems were specially written by
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Born in London, Blunden was the eldest of the nine children of Charles Edmund Blunden (1871–1951) and his wife, Georgina Margaret
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Bergonzi, Bernard, "Blunden, Edmund Charles (1896–1974)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
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by Blunden himself, recorded in 1964 by the British Council. Other World War I poets heard on the CD include Siegfried Sassoon,
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in succession to Graves; with some misgivings, he agreed to stand and was elected by a large majority over the other candidate,
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An early supporter was Siegfried Sassoon, who became a lifelong friend. In 1920, Blunden published a collection of poems,
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A large collection of Blunden's papers is located at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin
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in May 1916, two months after the battalion's arrival in France. He served with the battalion on the
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On 11 November 1985, Blunden was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in
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Finding aid to Edmund Blunden papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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Blunden survived nearly two years in the front line without physical injury (despite being
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Blunden's output was prolific. To those who thought that he published too much, he quoted
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commented, "He loved cricket… and played it ardently and very badly", and in a review of
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The Silver Bird of Herndyke Mill; Stane Street; The Gods of the World Beneath
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Edmund Blunden reading and commenting on his poem "Concert Party"
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Masks of Time: A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative
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Perhaps that is what all books on cricket are trying to say.
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Eastward: A Selection of Verses Original and Translated
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to the end of the war, taking part in the actions at
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In September 1915, over a year after the outbreak of
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CBE
MC
Blunden, c. 1914
London
Long Melford
Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford
Christ's Hospital
Queen's College, Oxford
Military Cross
C.B.E.
CBE
MC
critic
Siegfried Sassoon
World War I
Professor of Poetry
University of Oxford
Nobel Prize in Literature
Yalding
Christ's Hospital
The Queen's College, Oxford
World War I
commissioned
temporary
second lieutenant
British Army
Royal Sussex Regiment
Kitchener's Army
116th Brigade
39th Division

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