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  Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
2, p.281 [Blunt, the English diplomat who supported Irish nationalist cause, was the first to refuse to wear prison clothes when imprisoned in 1887, and further, that his example was followed by IPP members William O’Brien and Timothy Harrington]; p.1003 [Frederick Ryan edited his paper Egypt].
Lady Gregory wrote the sonnets that Blunt published as “A Woman’s Sonnets”, which were actually her love-letters to him [see Attic Guide, 1993, under Carolyn Swift].
Blunt is erroneously accredited with fathering Robert Gregory in Roy Foster, W.
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  Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922) was a British poet and writer.
Blunt opposed British imperialism, and his championship of Irish causes led to his imprisonment in 1888.
Arab Pen, English Purse: John Sabunji and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, on Blunt's political activities in the Middle East, by Martin Kramer
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 Lady Anne Blunt and Sir Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Sir Wilfred Blunt was born August 17,1840 and was the second son of Francis Blunt, the scion of an ild Sussex family.
Blunt especially was desperate for a son to carry on the family line and each failure devastated him.
In 1882 the Blunts purchased Sheykh Obeyd, a thirty-two acre house and walled garden on the outskirts of Cairo in the desert near the pyramids.
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 WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT - LoveToKnow Article on WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
In 1867 he was sent to South America, and on his return to England retired from the service on his marriage with Lady Anne Noel, daughter of the earl of Lovelace and a granddaughter of the poet Byron.
Mr Blunt became known as an ardent sympathizer with Mahommedan aspirations, and in his Future of Islam (1888) he directed attention to the forces which afterwards produced the movements of Pan-Islamism and Mahdism.
H~ was a violent opponent of the English policy in the Sudan, and in The Wind and the Whirlwind (in verse, 1883) prophesied its downfall.
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 Blunt (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In drug culture, a Blunt is a cigar filled with marijuana.
Blunt, a Bluetooth protocol stack for Newton OS 2.1 devices.
In biology, a Blunt end, a possible configuration of a DNA molecule.
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 Lady Anne Blunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anne Isabella (Annabella) Noel Blunt, née King-Noel, 15th Baroness Wentworth (22 September 1837-15 December 1917), known for most of her life as Lady Anne Blunt, was co-founder with her husband the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt of the Crabbet Arabian Stud.
Wilfrid died in 1922, and the reunited studs continued under Judith's management.
Her decision to use the Polish stallion Skowronek remains controversial, but the stud at Crabbet Park survived and prospered for almost fifty years until in 1970 the property itself was bisected by a motorway.
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Blunt had befriended Afghani when they met for the first time in 1883 in Paris, where Afghani was engaged with leading French Freemasons who had taken to bed their eager Islamic Modernist friend, and was to promote the 'free thinking eastern gentleman' on numerous occasions during the next ten years.
Nevertheless, the seventy-four year old Blunt was still an impressive figure, and Yeats and his young friends were not disappointed with their famous 'Peacock Dinner' (Pound's idea and I believe he cooked it) in honour of the man of action with 'a fine old eye', as he was referred to in The Cantos.
Blunt died on the tenth of September 1922 at the age of eighty-two.
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 Arab Pen, English Purse: John Sabunji and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt by Martin Kramer
Blunt was the first to challenge the traditional British support for Ottoman territorial integrity in Asia, and he prompted a spirited debate in London.
Blunt would need the help of an interpreter, were he to get in touch with the “future leaders of reform and liberty in Islam” whom he hoped to identify.
Blunt was indeed “too naive” to have assumed that Sabunji could have presented himself in Egypt as acting in Blunt’s private service--a naiveté matched only by Sabunji’s, for assuming that the notoriously indiscreet Blunt would not wish to publish his version of the Egyptian saga in full.
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 Guardian Unlimited Books | First chapters | Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter
They were a junior branch of the Blunts of Crabbet Park, landed gentry with a large estate near Horsham in Sussex, whose incumbent at Anthony's birth was the infamous poet and anti-imperialist Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
Frederick Blunt was a hard-working and successful career churchman who, after being made a canon of the archbishopric of York, had risen to become Suffragan Bishop of Hull in 1891, having turned down an invitation to become Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia.
As babies, the Blunt boys sit swaddled in lace; then as boys they stand unselfconsciously in sailor suits, surrounded by toys and pets, in the rectory's flower-filled garden, with its roses and artichoke grove planted and tended by Hilda, who was an enthusiastic horticulturalist.
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 Lady Anne Blunt -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Though a fond father to Judith, Blunt made no secret of the fact that he would have preferred a son.
The Crabbet Stud was split in two and Lady Anne moved to Sheykh Obeyd Garden near Cairo, a 32 acre (129,000 m²) apricot orchard the Blunts had purchased in 1882.
After Lady Anne's death in 1917 and that of Wilfrid in 1922, the separated studs were reunited under Judith's management.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/L/La/Lady_Anne_Blunt.htm   (454 words)

  
 From the Desert, From the Green: The Imported Arabians of Lewis Payne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
She also told how Wilfrid Blunt used to drive a team of Arabs at a full gallop around a sharp turn and through a gate.
he Blunts, and of course Lady Wentworth, were quite insistent on a horse's being able to move, because their introduction to the horse was in the desert where action and movement with efficiency is of paramount importance, which seems to have been lost now.
Lady Anne Blunt told her granddaughter, Lady Anne Lytton, one time as they stood and watched *Berk moving, "Anne, that is the way an Arab is supposed to move." It's a reaching stride.
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 CMK Arabian Horses: The Ever Expanding Crabbet Universe
Samuel Blunt's son, William, was the father of Francis Blunt, who was the father of two boys.
The Blunt stock is a distinct and self-contained part of the foundation of modern Arabian breeding.
The horses the Blunts acquired in Egypt might have close pedigree ties to the horses of the various princes, but again exact relationships are for the most part impossible to prove.
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 Poet: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - All poems of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Poet: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - All poems of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Sir Wilfred Blunt was born August 17,1840 and was the second son of Francis Blunt, the scion of an ild Sussex...
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (August 17, 1840–September 10, 1922) was a British poet and writer.
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 Blunt
BLUNT, WILFRID SCAWEN (1840—1922), English poet, diplomat and publicist, was born on the 17th of August 1840 at Pictworth House, Sussex, the son of Francis Scawen Blunt, who served in the Peninsular War and was wounded at Corunna.
Blunt penetrated al-Najd with his wife, Pilgrimage to Nejd, The Cradle of the Arab Race, 2 vols.
n the process Blunt became known as an ardent sympathizer with Muslim aspirations, and in his Future of Islam (1888) he directed attention to the forces which afterwards would produce Pan-Islamism movements in the 20th century.
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 Barzan Publishing Limited - Review Session   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was a poet and the author of books and pamphlets about politics; he was even imprisoned in 1888 for his activities in the Irish Land League.
Having grown up in a ‘labyrinth of troubles’, Anne was happy to leave it behind her when, at the unusually late age of nearly thirty, she married a man with whom she was passionately in love.
Wilfrid Blunt was irresistibly charming, extremely handsome and of an ‘artistic temperament’ which was perhaps unsuited to his first career as a diplomat.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Blunt Wilfrid Scawen
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen (1840-1922), English poet, traveller, and diplomat, who championed the causes of many non-European peoples.
Wilfrid, St (634-709 or 710), English prelate, born of noble Northumbrian parentage.
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid (1841-1919), Canadian statesman, the first French-Canadian prime minister (1896-1911) of Canada.
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 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: Bibliography
Accidental Tourist: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, and the British Invasion of Egypt in 1882
Jane Morris to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: The Letters of Jane Morris to Wilifrid Scawen Blunt Together With Extracts from Blunt's Diaries.
The Cousins: The Friendship, Opinions and Activities of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and George Wyndham.
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 WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT (... - Online Information article about WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT (...
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Mr Blunt became known as an ardent sympathizer with lblahommedan aspirations, and in his Future of See also:
Wilfrid Blunt (1888), selected and edited by W.
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 Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. - Yoda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was a nineteenth century English poet and political activist.
Blunt called this sheikh “a man of genius” whom he felt “highly honoured” to have as a guest despite his being “a wild man”.)
Blunt wanted a seat in Parliament and so went to see Lord Randolph Churchill, who at this time was the leader of the Tory Democrat group in the Conservative Party.
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 Arieana Arabians - Heritage Notebook: Into the Sands of Time (Desert Bred and Foundation Mares)
Bred in the desert by Suleyman Jelalel of the Gomussa Tribe of the Sebaa Anazeh.
Captured in war as a 5-year-old by the Roala in the winter of 1877-78 and sold to a Moali from whom she was purchased by the Blunts on January 4, 1878 in Aleppo for £52.
Bred in the desert of Ali Pasha Sherif and Abbas Pasha bloodlines by Mahmud Bey.
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 Arieana Arabians - Heritage Notebook: Into the Sands of Time (Desert Bred Stallions)
A Desert-Bred Stallion and treasured within the CMK Heritage as one of the original foundation sires for Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's and Lady Anne Blunt's Crabbet Stud in England, Azrek was bred by Sheik Mashlab Ibn Derri of the of the Resallin Gomussa tribe of the Sebaa Anazeh.
A Desert-Bred Stallion and treasured within the CMK Heritage as one of the original foundation sires for Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's and Lady Anne Blunt's Crabbet Stud in England, Pharaoh was bred by Barki Ibn Ed Derri of the Resallin Gomussa of the Sebaa Anazeh.
Yataghan is treasured in the CMK Heritage as the sire of *Naomi.
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 Anthony Blunt --  Encyclopædia Britannica
While a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in the 1930s Blunt became a member of a circle of disaffected young men led by Guy Burgess (q.v.
More results on "Anthony Blunt" when you join.
Blunt became a Communist while at Cambridge University in England in the 1930s.
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 blunt - definition of blunt by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Abrupt and often disconcertingly frank in speech: "Onscreen, John Wayne was a blunt talker and straight shooter" Time.
Tildy with the blunt nose, the hay-coloured hair, the freckled skin, the bag-o'-meal figure, had never had an admirer.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen (1840-1922)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Second son of Francis Blunt and born into an old Sussex family.
Blunt opposed British rule in Egypt and was also in favor of Irish home rule.
Blunt had an affair with Jane Morris, wife of William Morris and model of Gabriel Dante Rossetti.
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 Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy A Reappraisal Progress in Pain Research and Management Vol 6 :: Reflex Sympathetic ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Wilfrid Joseph Dixon Frank Jones Massey "Introduction to Statistical Analysis".
Wilfrid Joseph Halliday "D. (Dorothy Una McGrigor Phillips):a memoir".
Wilfrid S Blunt "The Poetical Works of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Bcl 1 Pr Eng Lit Ser"
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 AllRefer.com - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English Literature, 19th Century, Biographies
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt[skO´in] Pronunciation Key, 1840–1922, English poet and political writer.
After retiring c.1872 from the diplomatic service, he began a career of travel and political crusading.
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 Pikle - The Diary Junction - Wilfrid Blunt
Blunt was born into an old Sussex family at Crabbet Park, but his father died when he was only two.
Blunt became increasingly outspoken on international issues, opposing British rule in Egypt, and British policy in the Sudan and sympathising with Muslim aspirations.
Apart from poetry and controversial ideas on foreign policy, Blunt is also remembered for having an affair with Jane Morris, William Morris's wife, for breeding Arab horses, and for his spicy diaries.
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 The Political Forum
But when it comes to love sonnets, I prefer Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's to those of the great Bard, even though I am well aware that this is like favoring sandlot baseball over the Yankees.
While the critics are generally kind to Blunt, none place him high in the ranks of English poets.
It should come as no surprise that Blunt's sonnets are full of energy, for his was a life of travel, adventure, love affairs, and political action.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Blunt Wilfrid Scawen
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid (1841-1919), seventh prime minister of Canada (1896-1911).
Wilfrid, Saint (634-709 or 710), English prelate, born of noble Northumbrian parentage.
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 Accidental Tourist : Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, and the British Invasion of Egypt in 1882
Written to set the record straight about Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and his activities in Egypt's 'Urabi Revolt of 1882, The Accidental Traveler shows how Blunt-with the access to leaders on both sides--attempted to mediate the crisis behind the scenes in both Cairo and London.
Labeled a traitor in Parliament for his association with 'Urabi, Blunt wa further discreditied by a government cover-up.
The author contends that Blunt was ultimately successful in his appeals on behalf of the Egyptians--although not how he intended.
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