Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) was an English poet and writer who wrote verse, much of which reflected his experiences during World War I. Remarkably, he survived two years on the front line without being wounded physically (although he was gassed once during his time there); however, the mental scars from his experiences bleed through even poetry that made no direct reference to the war. He was a leading member of the Georgian poets, which included fellow World War I veterans, Rupert Brooks, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon. The Georgian Poets were defined by their inclusion in a series of anthologies published in England between 1911 and 1922, and were seen as precursors to the Modernist movement in poetry. Blunden was nominated six times for the Nobel Prize in literature.
Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) was an English poet and writer who wrote verse, much of which reflected his experiences during World War I. Remarkably, he survived two years on the front line without being wounded physically (although he was gassed once during his time there); however, the mental scars from his experiences bleed through even poetry that made no direct reference to the war. He was a leading member of the Georgian poets, which included fellow World War I veterans, Rupert Brooks, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon. The Georgian Poets were defined by their inclusion in a series of anthologies published in England between 1911 and 1922, and were seen as precursors to the Modernist movement in poetry. Blunden was nominated six times for the Nobel Prize in literature.
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