BD. Edmund Blunden

194. Thwaite, Anthony. Review of Edmund Blunden: A Biography (193), by Barry Webb. Washington Post Book World, 13 January 1991, p. X4.

Thwaite finds that apart from Blunden’s ‘slender literary legacy’ he ‘survives’ for two reasons, the first of which is that his tours of Japan were so successful that ‘all subsequent “cultural” visitors from Britain to Japan have reason to thank the shade of the blessed St. Edmund’.