Edmund Blunden
English poet and critic who survived the Somme and whose Undertones of War is one of the finest prose memoirs of the conflict. His pastoral verse continues the tradition of John Clare.
Works
- PastoralsEnglish poet's verses evoking English rural landscape, seasons, and agricultural life
- The WaggonerEnglish poem depicting a farm worker's journey through changing landscape and time
- English PoemsEnglish poet's collected verses celebrating rural heritage and natural world
- Undertones of WarEnglish memoir-poem blending personal experience with the devastation of World War One
- Poems 1914-30English poet's verses from early period through inter-war years exploring nature and history