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Experience the beauty and horror of World War I through the eyes of a seasoned soldier with this moving collection of poems from Edmund Blunden. Drawing on his own experiences in the trenches, Blunden's poetry captures both the heroism and tragedy of war, as well as the quiet moments of beauty and reflection that sustained soldiers through the darkest days.
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Edmund Blunden
Edmund Blunden (1896–1974) 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.
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