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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Image: Lady Alice Mary Kerr (1860s), British Library Add. MS 54085B, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

ويلفريد سكاون بلنت

Notable figure 1840–1922 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 498; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 269 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen (1840-1922)

From the United Kingdom; worked in Egypt

Field: Literary translation

Affiliation

Versified The Seven Golden Odes with Lady Anne Blunt (1903)

Biography

Educated at Stonyhurst and Oscott, he served in the diplomatic service (1858–1869), then travelled in the Middle East and North Africa, visiting Najd and Iraq, and came to spend his winters outside Cairo. He put into English verse his wife Lady Anne Blunt's translation of the Muʿallaqat, published as The Seven Golden Odes of Pagan Arabia (London, 1903).