Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (born August 17, 1840 in Petworth , Sussex , † September 10, 1922 in Crabbet Park , Sussex) was a British poet.

Life

Blunt was born in Petworth House . Since his mother had converted to Catholicism, he attended Twyford School, Stonyhurst, where he was very unhappy, St. Mary's College, Oscott and, for a happy six months, Stonyhurst College , a Roman Catholic Jesuit school near Clitheroe, Lancashire .

Blunt served in the British Diplomatic Service from 1858 to 1869. On June 8, 1869, he married Lady Anne Noel , a granddaughter of Lord Byron . The two made extensive trips to the Middle East and India . Among other things, they bought numerous Arab horses there and founded the renowned Crabbet Park Arabian Stud stud in England .

Blunt was an opponent of British imperialism . In 1888 he was imprisoned for an alleged homosexual affair with his cousin, but the chief judge officially stated his political views as the reason for his arrest, so that Blunt was unable to defend himself adequately. In his "My Diaries" he describes this episode in detail and also tells of the repression of his fellow prisoners, who, as allegedly homosexuals, made prison stay very difficult for him. Due to an intervention by Sir Cedric Lowell, Blunt was released again in 1889, but the prison episode remained formative for his further life and work.

He was best known for his poetry , his poetic works appeared in 1914.

Works

  • Sonnets and Songs. By Proteus . John Murray, 1875
  • Aubrey de Vere (Ed.): Proteus and Amadeus: A Correspondence . Kegan Paul, 1878
  • Lady Anne Blunt: Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. Edited, with a Preface and Some Account of the Arabs and their Horses by WS Blunt. 2 vols. John Murray, 1878.
  • The Love Sonnets of Proteus . Kegan Paul, 1881
  • The Future of Islam . Kegan Paul, Trench, London 1882.
  • Esther (1892)
  • Griselda: A Society Novel in Rhymed Verse . K. Paul, Trench, Trübner 1893.
  • The Quatrains of Youth (1898)
  • Satan Absolved: A Victorian Mystery . J. Lane, London, New York 1899.
  • Seven Golden Odes of Pagan Arabia (1903)
  • Atrocities of Justice under British Rule in Egypt . TF Unwin, London 1907.
  • Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt . Button, 1907
  • India under Ripon: A Private Diary. T. Fisher Unwin, London 1909.
  • Gordon at Khartoum . S. Swift & Co., London 1911.
  • The Land War in Ireland . S. Swift & Co., London 1912.
  • The Poetical Works , Macmillan 1914. 2 volumes.
  • My Diaries . M. Secker, London 1919.
  • My Diaries . 2 vols. AA Knopf, New York 1921
  • Books by Blunt in the Gutemberg project
  • Books by Blunt on the Internet Archive - online

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personal data
SURNAME Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Petworth
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1922
Place of death Crabbet Park