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Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen (1840 - 1922)

Index to poems

  1. At a Funeral
  2. The Mockery of Life
  3. On Her Vanity
  4. On the Shortness of Time
  5. The Sublime
  6. To One on her Birthday
  7. To One Who would Make a Confession
Biography: 
  • Longford, Elizabeth. “Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen (1840-1922).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
Given Name: 
Wilfrid Scawen
Family Name: 
Blunt
Birth Date: 
July 17, 1840
Death Date: 
September 10, 1922
Nationality: 
English
Family Relations: 
wife : Anne Isabella Noel King
Literary Period: 
Victorian
Literary Movement: 
Unknown
Buried At: 
Sussex woods near Newbuildings Place, Southwater, Sussex
First RPO Edition: 
2005