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Blunden

American  
[bluhn-duhn] / ˈblʌn dən /

noun

  1. Edmund, 1896–1974, English poet.


Blunden British  
/ ˈblʌndən /

noun

  1. Edmund ( Charles ). 1896–1974, British poet and scholar, noted esp for Undertones of War (1928), a memoir of World War I in verse and prose

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In the early years of World War II, Godfrey Blunden, an ambitious Australian correspondent for The Sydney Daily Telegraph, was hardly a household name.

From New York Times Jul. 3, 2023

Other Western reporters also remember this period as an era when they had access that would have been unimaginable to Blunden and the other Metropol journalists.

From New York Times Jul. 3, 2023

The fire service would not confirm that Mr Blunden had been suspended.

From BBC Mar. 30, 2022

Mr Blunden hit out at at the attacks on his firefighters who he said "are only doing their job".

From BBC Nov. 5, 2021

Mr Blunden has described how      The lost mole tries to pierce the mattocked clay      In agony and terror of the sun.

From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd

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