Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.

On 11 November 1985 Blunden was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey The inscription on the stone was written by fellow Great War poet Wilfred Owen. Blunden and his friend Rupert Hart-Davis regularly opened the batting for a publiEdmund Blundenr's eleven in the 1930s (Blunden insisted on batting without gloves). That marriage which was childless was dissolved in 1945 and in the same year he married Claire Margaret Poynting a former pupil of his; they had four daughters.

For most of his career Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong. He ended his career as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose.