Edmund Blunden

Edmund Blunden CBE MC
Blunden, c. 1914
Born	Edmund Charles Blunden (1896-11-01)1 November 1896 London, England
Died	20 January 1974(1974-01-20) (aged 77) Long Melford, England
Resting place	Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford
Occupation	Poet, author
Education	Christ's Hospital; Queen's College, Oxford
Notable works	Poems 1913 and 1914; An Elegy and Other Poems; Cricket Country; Poems on Japan
Notable awards	Military Cross; C.B.E.; the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
Spouse	Mary Daines Sylva Norman Claire Margaret Poynting
Partner	Aki Hayashi
Children	seven

Edmund Charles Blunden CBE MC (1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974) 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.^[1]