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The poet and critic Edmund Blunden was born in Yalding, Kent in 1896. He studied at Oxford, was professor of English literature at Tokyo from 1924-7 and fellow of Merton College, Oxford from 1931. He joined the staff of 'The Times Literary Supplement' in 1943, and from 1953 lectured at the University of Hong Kong. From1966-8 he was professor of poetry at Oxford.

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An established classic ... accurate and detailed in observation of the war scene and its human figures -- D. J. Enright

Undertones of War

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    A Paperback / softback by Edmund Blunden, Hew Strachan

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 02/11/2000
      ISBN13: 9780141184364, 978-0141184364
      ISBN10: 0141184361

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      Book Synopsis
      The poet and critic Edmund Blunden was born in Yalding, Kent in 1896. He studied at Oxford, was professor of English literature at Tokyo from 1924-7 and fellow of Merton College, Oxford from 1931. He joined the staff of 'The Times Literary Supplement' in 1943, and from 1953 lectured at the University of Hong Kong. From1966-8 he was professor of poetry at Oxford.

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      An established classic ... accurate and detailed in observation of the war scene and its human figures -- D. J. Enright

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