Manuscript Collection MS COLL 00372 - Yuan Collection of Edmund Blunden Papers

Identity area

Reference code

CA OTUTF MS COLL 00372

Title

Yuan Collection of Edmund Blunden Papers

Date(s)

  • 1951-1999 (Creation)

Level of description

Manuscript Collection

Extent and medium

2 boxes and oversize folder

Context area

Name of creator

(1896-1974)

Biographical history

Edmund Blunden was born in London, England, in 1896. Educated at Christ's Hospital and Queen's College, Oxford, he joined the Royal Sussex Regiment on the outbreak of the First World War. During the war, Blunden fought at Ypres and the Somme and won the Military Cross for bravery. Blunden wrote about these experiences in Undertones of War (1928). He also produced collected editions of the work of the war poets Wilfred Owen (1931) and Ivor Gurney (1954). He held several academic posts, including professor of English literature at Tokyo University, University of Hong Kong and Oxford University. He wrote books on Leigh Hunt, Thomas Hardy, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Charles Lamb. He also published several volumes of poetry: Pastorals (1916), The Waggoner (1920), The Shepherd (1922), English Poems (1925), Poems: 1930-40 (1941) and After the Bombing (1950). He died in 1974.

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Gift of Sheila Yuan.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

The collection consists of holograph typescript manuscripts of Blunden's lecture notes, essays, speeches, addresses and poems, as well as correspondence with Sheila Yuan, who was Blunden's secretary in the Deptartment of English at the University of Hong Kong in the 1950s.

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Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://aeon.library.utoronto.ca

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Language of material

  • English

Script of material

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    Related units of description

    See also Hugh Morrison Collection of Edmund Blunden Papers (MS COLL 00056)

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    Description identifier

    Institution identifier

    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

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