BLUNDEN (Edmund).
An Anthology of War Poems.
Inscribed by Blunden with a quotation from Wilfred Owen “Maud, her War Poems, with Edmund’s love Jan 28 1931. It seemed that out of the battle I escaped.” He has also sruck out the note of “second impression” on the verso of the title page and made a note adjacent “Must not be! E.B.”
A fairly accomplished original poem on this book and on the war poets generally is written out in pencil, unsigned but dated 11.XI.57, opposite the title page. Beginning “A well known poet has inked his name inside” it concludes
“Yet, when I was a boy
I thought how fine, how true
And wished with all my heart
I had been one of you;
But now it matters not what I might find
- Poppy, or love-lies-bleeding, or the nettle weed”
