Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt ( born August 17, 1840 in Petworth, Sussex, † September 10, 1922 in Crabbet Park, Sussex ) was a British poet.

Life

Blunt was born in Petworth House. Since his mother had converted to the Catholic faith, he attended Twyford School, Stonyhurst, where he was very ungücklich, St. Mary's College, Oscott, and for a happy half year, the Stonyhurst College, a Roman Catholic Jesuit school near Clitheroe, Lancashire.

Blunt was from 1858 to 1869 in the diplomatic service of Great Britain worked. On 8 June 1869 he married Lady Anne Noel, a granddaughter of Lord Byron. The two undertook extensive travels in the Middle East and India. Among other things they bought there many Arabian horses and founded in England, the renowned Crabbet Arabian Stud

Blunt was opponent of British imperialism. In 1888 he was arrested for an alleged homosexual affair with his cousin, as arrest reason, however, was officially stated by Chief Justice his political views, so not the possibility existed for Blunt to defend themselves adequately. In his " My Diaries" he describes this episode in detail and also tells of the repression of his fellow prisoners to the prison made ​​it very difficult as alleged homosexuals. Due to an intervention by Sir Cedric Lowell Blunt was released in 1889, but the prison episode was a major influence on his life and his work.

He was known especially for his poetry, his Poetical Works published in 1914.

Works

  • Sonnets and Songs. By Proteus. John Murray, 1875
  • Aubrey de Vere (ed.): Proteus and Amadeus: A Correspondence. Kegan Paul, 1878
  • Lady Anne Blunt: Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. Edited, with a Preface and Some Account of the Arabs and Their Horses by WS Blunt. 2 vols, John Murray, 1878.
  • The Love Sonnets of Preteus Kegan Paul, 1881
  • The Future of Islam. Kegan Paul, Trench, London 1882.
  • Esther (1892 )
  • Griselda: A Novel Society in Rhymed Verse. K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1893.
  • The quatrains of Youth (1898 )
  • Satan Absolved: A Victorian Mystery. J. Lane, London, New York, 1899.
  • Atrocities of Justice under British Rule in Egypt. T. F. Unwin, London, 1907.
  • Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt. Knopf, 1907
  • India under Ripon: A Private Diary. T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1909.
  • The Land War in Ireland. S. Swift & Co., London, 1912.
  • The Poetical Works, Macmillan, 1914. 2 vols.
  • My Diaries. M. Secker, London, 1919.
  • My Diaries. 2 vols A. A. Knopf, New York 1921
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