Even though the edition was only 500 copies it was considered important, due to praise from Norman Lindsay, Brian Penton in the Bulletin, and others in the Telegraph and elsewhere in the Sydney press.
[1] Early Australian modernist poet Ronald McCuaig dedicated his 1938 book of poems Vaudeville to Blunden.
He met Maria Rothenberg-Craipeau in Paris a month after the liberation of the city and after the war they both left for the United States, where they got married and lived eleven years.
Blunden authored several novels, including A Room on the Route (about the NKVD, predecessor to the KGB, during World War II) and The Time of the Assassins.
[4] His novel Charco Harbour is a modernist historical fiction on Captain James Cook and his journey along the Australian coast in 1768.