BD. Edmund Blunden

51. ‘Love of Life’. Review of Double Lives (BJ10), by William Plomer. Observer, 21 November 1943, p. 3.

Blunden recalls that when Plomer arrived in Japan ‘the impression he made . . . was . . . of escape from a considerable nervous strain’, but now ‘he does not . . . write as one at war with the past, however merrily he may treat its phenomena’.