BD. Edmund Blunden

145. [Blunden]. ‘Courtly Taste’. Review of Japanese Court Poetry, by Robert Brower and Earl Miner. TLS, 5 October 1962, p. 778.

Blunden finds Brower and Miner’s work ‘earnest’ and commends the skill with which they ‘expound . . . [the] subtlety and complexity’ of the ‘seeming miniatures’ of the classical Japanese court. Includes reference to Aston’s remarks on the subject in his Anthology of Japanese Literature (see D13).