How did Edmund Blunden meet Siegfried Sassoon?
After the war in May 1919 Blunden decided to send some of his poems to Sassoon, who was literary editor of the Daily Herald (the Daily Herald became the Sun in 1964). On receipt of the poems Sassoon wrote to Blunden requesting further copies as well as another of his publications entitled Pastorals. He also invited Blunden to visit him when he was next in London. A meeting was duly arranged. This was an important meeting for Blunden not only in terms of his literary career (Sassoon felt he had discovered a poet) but also it was the start of one of his most important friendships that was to last for forty years.
