Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Edmund Blunden
Born: November 1, 1896
Died: January 20, 1974 (aged 77)
Bio: Edmund Charles Blunden was an English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose.
Known for:
- Undertones of War (1928)
- A Hong Kong house (1959)
- English Villages (1941)
- Fall in, ghosts
- Shelley: A Life Story (1946)