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A Hong Kong House: Poems 1951-1961, by Edmund Blunden
€10.00
Quay Books
“The East has all the time, the West has none…”
Edmund Blunden became Professor of English Literature in the University of Hong Kong in 1953. In A Hong Kong House he has collected verses that vividly describe the colours, sights and sounds of his life in the East.
He writes about the garden outside his window: “Some trumpet-purple blooms blazed at the sun's huge light”, or the boats in the harbour: “‘I’m a-fishing today,’ sings the many-patched sailor.”
Blunden, (1896 – 1974) like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, had lived through the First World War, fighting at Ypres, the Somme and the Battle of Passchendaele. Over a long and varied literary career as a poet, critic, author and teacher he produced many books of poetry, prose and biography.
A clean copy in good condition. With dust jacket.
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