Edmund Blunden
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A Biography
Barry Webb
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"[An] absorbing and very sympathetic account."—Library Journal
"Barry Webb has drawn an engaging and often amusing portrait of his hero. . . . This book is not only the study of an individual poet but the picture of his literary age."—Peter Quennell, Country Life
"Mr. Webb’s book is long, thorough, and well-researched."—The Economist
"Judicious and carefully researched. . . . Sheds a flood of light on a period in our literary culture that seems as remote now as that of the Elizabethans."—Anthony Curtis, Financial Times
"Barry Webb, who knew Blunden in old age, has produced a lively, accurate, sympathetic, and well-written life."—Jeffrey Meyers, The New Criterion
"Webb seems Blunden’s perfect biographer, for he shares Blunden’s pleasure in country things and in evocative language. His book is nicely, sometimes beautifully, written, and at the end the reader is sorry there’s no more."—Paul Fussell, The Sunday Times
"A beautifully written, well-researched biography which exhibits a proper respect for Blunden’s humanity and plain decency. . . . Edmund Blunden is distinguished by a subtle delicacy of style which is finely attuned to the personality of its subject."—Mark Bostridge, Times Higher Education Supplement
"Absorbing to the end."—Michael Meyer, London Magazine
"Barry Webb’s shrewd treatment brings out very well the sad contradiction that Blunden’s immense and deserved popularity as a lecturer and literary figure has failed to stand the always hard-faced test of time."—John Bayley, London Review of Books
"Blunden was an important [poet], whose life and prolific writings closely intertwined with modern British literature for many years. This biography, therefore, is also a history of the British literary world of the 1920s to the 1930s. Blunden himself has been treated fairly in this well-written and closely documented work, which is also the only complete biography of Blunden available. It is well indexed. Recommended for all academic literary collections."—Choice
"Handsomely produced, usefully illustrated, and with over three hundred pages of main text, the book is a labor of love."—Philip Gardner, Dalhousie Review
"A full and balanced account of the man who `touched the hearts of the Japanese in an extraordinary way’. . . . An absorbing portrait of an important figure in twentieth-century literature."—Leonard P. Sanders, Japan Times
"A most revealing portrait of a sensitive poet and an endearing human being."—K.C. Leung, World Literature Today
"A well-written, intelligent account. . . . fascinating."—Peter Stansky, American Historical Review
Publication Date: December 26, 1990