Books by Edmund Blunden

A beautifully illustrated edition of Edmund Blunden's rich prose memoir, John Greening couples the original and unrevised version of the text with the best of Blunden's own annotations, commentaries, and illustrations.

Originally published in 1933, Charles Lamb and his Contemporaries by Edmund Blunden was included in the Cambridge Miscellany series in 1937. The volume was based on the Clark Lectures delivered by the author in Cambridge in 1932 and offers a critical sketch of the English essayist Charles Lamb.

In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele, describing the latter as 'murder, not only to the troops, but to their singing faiths and hopes'. In his compassionate yet unsentimental prose, he tells of the heroism and despair found among the officers. Blunden's poems show how he found hope in the natural landscape; the only thing that survives the terrible betrayal enacted in the Flanders fields.