Quote of the day
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to 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)