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Selected Poems and Prose
2013
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Fired by his abiding love of the English landscape, the poetry of Edward Thomas is some of the most astonishing of the twentieth century. A journalist, essayist and critic for many years, he was encouraged to write verse by his friend Robert Frost. He produced a late outburst of poetry of extraordinary beauty and mystery about the subjects closest to his heart: rural England and its inhabitants, landscape, atmosphere, transience, endurance and death. By 1917, when he was killed on the Western Front, he had earned his place as one of England's most valued poets. This selection brings together his finest verse with his most vivid prose writings on the countryside.
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Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas
Author · 15 books

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Philip Edward Thomas was an Anglo-Welsh writer of prose and poetry. He is commonly considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences. Already an accomplished writer, Thomas turned to poetry only in 1914. He enlisted in the army in 1915, and was killed in action during the Battle of Arras in 1917, soon after he arrived in France. His Works: Poetry collections: Six Poems, under pseudonym Edward Eastaway, Pear Tree Press, 1916. Poems, Holt, 1917. Last Poems, Selwyn & Blount, 1918. Collected Poems, Selwyn & Blount, 1920. Two Poems, Ingpen & Grant, 1927. The Poems of Edward Thomas, R. George Thomas (ed), Oxford University Press, 1978 Poemoj (Esperanto translation), Kris Long (ed & pub), Burleigh Print, Bracknell, Berks, 1979. Edward Thomas: A Mirror of England, Elaine Wilson (ed), Paul & Co., 1985. The Poems of Edward Thomas, Peter Sacks (ed), Handsel Books, 2003. The Annotated Collected Poems, Edna Longley (ed), Bloodaxe Books, 2008. Fiction: The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans (novel), 1913 Essay collections: Horae Solitariae, Dutton, 1902. Oxford, A & C Black, 1903. Beautiful Wales, Black, 1905. The Heart of England, Dutton, 1906. The South Country, Dutton, 1906 (reissued by Tuttle, 1993). Rest and Unrest, Dutton, 1910. Light and Twilight, Duckworth, 1911. The Last Sheaf, Cape, 1928.

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