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WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT (184o— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 93 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT (184o— )  ,
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English poet and publicist, was born on the 17th of August 1840 at Petworth House, Sussex, the son of Francis Scawen Blunt, who served in the
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Peninsular War and was wounded at Corunna . He was educated at Stonyhurst and Oscott, and entered the
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diplomatic service in 1858, serving successively at Athens,
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Madrid, Paris and Lisbon . In 1867 he was sent to South
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America, and on his return to England retired from the service on his
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marriage with Lady Anne Noel, daughter of the
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earl of Lovelace and a
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grand-daughter of the poet Byron . In 1872 he succeeded, by the
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death of his elder
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brother, to the estate of Crabbet Park, Sussex, where he established a famous
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stud for the breeding of Arab horses, Mr and Lady Anne Blunt travelled repeatedly in
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northern Africa,
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Asia Minor and
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Arabia, two of their expeditions being described in Lady Anne's Bedouins of the Euphrates (2 vols., 1879) and A Pilgrimage to
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Nejd (2 vols., 1881) . Mr Blunt became known as an ardent sympathizer with lblahommedan aspirations, and in his Future of
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Islam (1888) he directed attention to the forces which afterwards produced the movements of Pan-Islamism and Mandism . He was a violent opponent of the English policy in the Sudan, and in The Wind and the Whirlwind (in verse, 1883) prophesied its downfall . He supported the
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national party in
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Egypt, and took a prominent
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part in the defence of Arabi
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Pasha . Ideas about India (1885) was the result of two visits to that country, the second in 1883—1884 . In 1885 and 1886 he. stood unsuccessfully for parliament as a Home Ruler; and in 1887 he was arrested in Ireland while presiding over a
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political meeting in connexion with the agitation on Lord Clanricarde's estate, and was imprisoned for two months in Kilmainham . His best-known
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volume of verse, Love Sonnets of Proteus (188o), is a revelation of his real merits as an emotional poet . The
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Poetry of Wilfrid Blunt (1888), selected and edited by W . E .

Henley and Mr George Wyndham, includes these sonnets, together with " Worth
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Forest, a Pastoral," "
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Griselda " (described as a " society novel in rhymed verse "),
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translations from the Arabic, and poems which had appeared in other volumes .

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