Edmund Blunden papers, 1922-1986
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Creator:
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Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974 |
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Phys. Desc:
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8 linear feet (circa 2600 items in 20 boxes) |
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Call Number:
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Ms Coll\Blunden |
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Location:
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
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Biographical Note
English poet and critic.
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs and printed material of the English poet and critic, Edmund Blunden, documenting
his personal and professional activity. Blunden's letters to his second wife, Sylva Norman, and his secretary, Aki Hayashi,
are particularly well represented. Also included are many letters addressed to Blunden by eminent literary figures such as
John Betjeman, George Orwell, Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Spender, and Henry Williamson. Other literary correspondents are
Adrian Bell, Joyce Cary, Richard Church, C. Day Lewis, Walter de la Mare, Graham Greene, H.D., William Plomer, Kathleen Raine,
and Leonard Woolf. A Substantial portion of the cataloged correspondence contains drawings, verse fragments and poems by Blunden
which have been analyzed. Also present are eleven of Blunden's diaries, 1936-1967, which contain drafts of a number of poems.
In addition, the collection contains a small number of autograph manuscripts of Edmund Blunden's literary works
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