Word: blunden
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Lowell was a serious contender for the Oxford University poetry chair in February, but was defeated in the final balloting by Edmund Blunden, a British poet...
...annual $980 the professorship provides by delivering three lectures within eight weeks last year. Reason: for tax purposes, Graves is registered as a company in Liechtenstein and can only spend three months a year in Britain. Neither of this year's candidates-American Robert Lowell and Briton Edmund Blunden-bothered to campaign for the seat...
...Lowell, the favorite at 6-4 and acknowledged the better poet of the two candidates, is Wadham College Warden Sir Maurice Bowra, who himself held the chair from 1946 to 1951. Bowra launched his campaign for Lowell last fall, after making, he claims, a gentleman's agreement with Blunden Backer Dr. Enid Starkie to limit the number of nominating signatures for each candidate. "She cheated me!" roared Bowra, when the flamboyant Miss Starkie, whose trademark is red underwear and a French sailor's hat, turned up with 301 names for Blunden to Bowra's 36 for Lowell...
...weeks of argument at "high tables" and public readings of both men's poetry, the M.A.s filed in their black gowns into the domed Sheldonian to cast their ballots. The sur prise winner at week's end-and Oxford poetry professor for the next five years: Edmund Blunden, with 477 votes v. 241 for Loser Lowell...
...Blunden, who usually writes pastoral verse, recently edited the collected works of Wiltred Owen. When the news of his appointment was brought to him he remarked, "What a bit of luck...