ABSTRACT
Edmund Blunden (b. 1896), poet and critic, edited, with Alan Porter (see No. 121) John Clare: Poems Chiefly from Manuscript, 1920. He has also edited Madrigals and Chronicles, 1924, and Sketches in the Life of John Clare, written by Himself, 1931. Blunden’s work on Clare and the circle in which he moved has always been sensitive.
