Cortege also appears on Artists Rifles, an audiobook CD issued in 2004 featuring war poetry read by Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, David Jones, Edgell Rickword and Lawrence Binyon, as well as music by Edward Elgar, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Maurice Ravel, Gustav Holst, Ivor Gurney, Ernest Moeran and Arthur Bliss.
Fussell describes the lives and works of many figures, but centers on four key writers of early English Modernist literature who became productive, or who significantly changed the form of their literary work, in combat on the Western front: Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, and Siegfried Sassoon.
Abe's personal contact with foreign thinking and attitudes was through one of his teachers, the English poet Edmund Blunden who in 1924 taught English Literature there.
Edmund Burke | Edmund Spenser | Edmund Hillary | Edmund Wilson | Edmund Husserl | Edmund Muskie | Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby | Edmund Barton | Edmund the Martyr | Edmund Rubbra | Edmund Kirby Smith | Edmund Gosse | SS Edmund Fitzgerald | George Edmund Street | Edmund Kean | Edmund Francis Law | Edmund Campion | St Edmund Hall, Oxford | Edmund Sharpe | Edmund Blunden | Edmund | The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald | SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' | Edmund White | Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York | Edmund Ignatius Rice | Edmund Curll | Clifford Edmund Bosworth | Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet | Edmund Reitter |
Literary friends from this period included mainly other ex-soldiers: Anthony Bertram, Edmund Blunden, Vivian de Sola Pinto, A. E. Coppard, Louis Golding, Robert Graves, L. P. Hartley, and Alan Porter.
The World War I poet Edmund Blunden lived, and is buried, in Long Melford ; the opera singer Mignon Nevada died here; and racing driver Richard Seaman lived at Kentwell Hall during part of his childhood.
Notable for including Orwell’s sentence: "Poetry on the air sounds like the Muses in striped trousers.", the article mentions some of the material used in the broadcasts, mainly by contemporary or near-contemporary English writers such as T. S. Eliot, Herbert Read, Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, Henry Treece, Alex Comfort, Robert Bridges, Edmund Blunden, and D. H. Lawrence.