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