Background
Edmund Charles was born on 1 November in 1896.
Edmund Charles was born on 1 November in 1896.
Edmund Charles Blunden studied at Christ's Hospital. Also, he was a student of the Oxford University.
Edmund Charles Blunden was a professor of English literature at Tokyo University (1924-1927) and subsequently an Oxford fellow and tutor for twelve years. He had won the Hawthornden Prize in 1922 for The Shepherd, and his Undertones of War (1929) brought him still wider attention. Blunden's miscellaneous prose has much charm, and his early dialectal and bucolic verse in Poems 1914-1930 received critical acclaim. His later verse, in Poems: 1930-1940 (1941), Shells by a Stream (1944), and After the Bombing (1948), which largely eschews dialectal treatment, has a contemplative dignity. He also wrote biographies of Leigh Hunt (1930), Thomas Hardy (1942), and Shelley (1946). Other volumes of verse include A Hong Kong House (1962) and Eleven Poems (1966). Blunden taught English at Hong Kong University from 1953 to 1964 and held the Oxford University Chair for Poetry from 1966 to 1968. He received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1956 and in 1963 was made a member of Japan's Order of the Rising Sun.
