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Edmund Blunden

(1896-1974), Poet, writer and teacher

Sitter in 22 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 Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax140771

Edmund Blunden

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140771

Edmund Blunden; John Cournos, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax141413

Edmund Blunden; John Cournos

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
NPG Ax141413

Edmund Blunden, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax141423

Edmund Blunden

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
NPG Ax141423

Siegfried Sassoon; Edmund Blunden, by Unknown photographer - NPG x46602

Siegfried Sassoon; Edmund Blunden

by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 8 July 1931
NPG x46602

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