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BLUNT, WILFRID SCAWEN (184o— )

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BLUNT, See also:
WILFRID (c. 634-709)
WILFRID SCAWEN (184o— ) , See also:

ENGLISH

English poet and publicist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 17th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1840 at Petworth See also:

House, See also:

Sussex, the son of See also:

Francis Scawen Blunt, who served in the See also:

PENINSULAR

Peninsular See also:

War and was wounded at See also:

Corunna. He was educated at Stonyhurst and Oscott, and entered the See also:

DIPLOMATIC

diplomatic service in 1858, serving successively at See also:

Athens, See also:

MADRID

Madrid, See also:

Paris and See also:

LISBON (Lisboa)

Lisbon. In 1867 he was sent to See also:

South See also:

AMERICA

America, and on his return to See also:

England retired from the service on his See also:

MARRIAGE

marriage with See also:

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady See also:

Anne See also:

NOEL, RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY (1834-1894)

Noel, daughter of the See also:

EARL

earl of See also:

LOVELACE, RICHARD (1618-1658)

Lovelace and a See also:

GRAND

grand-daughter of the poet See also:

Byron. In 1872 he succeeded, by the See also:

DEATH

death of his See also:

elder See also:

BROTHER

brother, to the See also:

ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate of Crabbet See also:

Park, Sussex, where he established a famous See also:

STUD

stud for the breeding of Arab horses, Mr and Lady Anne Blunt travelled repeatedly in See also:

NORTHERN

northern See also:

Africa, See also:

ASIA

Asia See also:

Minor and See also:

ARABIA

Arabia, two of their expeditions being described in Lady Anne's See also:

BEDOUINS (Ahl Bedu, " dwellers in the open land," or Ahl el beit, " people of the tent," as they call themselves)

Bedouins of the See also:

EUPHRATES (Babylon. Purattu, Heb. Perath, Arab. Frdt or Furst, Old Pers. Ufratu, Gr. Eb4 parrls)

Euphrates (2 vols., 1879) and A See also:

PILGRIMAGE (Fr. pelerinage, Lat. peregrinatio)

Pilgrimage to See also:

NEJD

Nejd (2 vols., 1881). Mr Blunt became known as an ardent sympathizer with lblahommedan aspirations, and in his Future of See also:

ISLAM

Islam (1888) he directed See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

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 (Arabic Bilad-es-Sudan, country of the blacks)

Sudan, and in The See also:

Wind and the Whirlwind (in See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, 1883) prophesied its downfall. He supported the See also:

NATIONAL

national party in See also:

EGYPT

Egypt, and took a prominent See also:

PART

part in the See also:

defence of Arabi See also:

PASHA

Pasha. Ideas about See also:

India (1885) was the result of two visits to that See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, the second in 1883—1884. In 1885 and 1886 he. stood unsuccessfully for See also:

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament as a See also:

Home Ruler; and in 1887 he was arrested in See also:

Ireland while presiding over a See also:

POLITICAL

political See also:

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

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

volume of verse, Love Sonnets of See also:

Proteus (188o), is a See also:

REVELATION, BOOK OF

revelation of his real merits as an emotional poet. The See also:

POETRY

Poetry of Wilfrid Blunt (1888), selected and edited by W. E.

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Henley and Mr See also:

George See also:

Wyndham, includes these sonnets, together with " See also:

Worth See also:

FOREST

Forest, a See also:

PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

Pastoral," " See also:

GRISELDA

Griselda " (described as a " society novel in rhymed verse "), See also:

TRANSLATIONS

translations from the Arabic, and poems which had appeared in other volumes.

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