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Edmund Blunden (1896-1974), Poet, writer and teacher

Sitter in 20 portraits
Poet of the First and Second World Wars, writer and teacher; served with the Royal Sussex Regiment in Flanders and awarded an MC; printed three pamphlets of verse (1916), but it was Undertones of War, the prose classic based on his wartime experiences which brought him wide recognition; a scholar of the Romantic period and biographer of Leigh Hunt.

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Edmund Blunden

by Wykeham Studios Ltd.
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Edmund Blunden

by Ralph Hodgson
pencil, 1921
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Edmund Blunden

by Sir William Rothenstein
chalk, 1922
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Edmund Blunden

by Peter Wardle
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Edmund Blunden

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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Edmund Blunden; Edward George Downing Liveing; Mary Blunden (née Daines)

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Edmund Blunden; Edward George Downing Liveing; Mary Blunden (née Daines)

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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Edmund Blunden; Mary Blunden (née Daines)

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Edward George Downing Liveing; Edmund Blunden

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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