Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (August 17, 1840–September 10, 1922) was a British poet and writer. He was born at Petworth House in Sussex, and served in the Diplomatic Service from 1858 to 1869. He married Lady Anne Noel and together they travelled extensively in the Middle East and India.
Blunt opposed British imperialism, and his championship of Irish causes led to his imprisonment in 1888.
He is best known for his poetry, which were published in a collected edition in 1914.
He had a long term relationship with the courtesan Catherine "Skittles" Walters.
Bibliography
- Sonnets and Songs of Proteus (1875)
- The Future of Islam (1882)
- Esther (1892)
- Collected Poems (1914)
- My Diaries (1920)
External links
- [Wilfred Scawen Blunt] includes some poems.
- [Three sonnets]
- [Arab Pen, English Purse: John Sabunji and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt], on Blunt's political activities in the Middle East, by Martin Kramer
- To Be Blunt: A Biographical Essay On Wilfrid Scawen Blunt by Abdullah Luongo [link]
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