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The South Country
Author | : Edward Thomas |
Publsiher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2022-06-13 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547059806 |
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This book is a freeform collection of thoughts and wonderings of lyrical poet Edward Thomas. His love for the countryside is brought to life by his gentle descriptions of the English countryside. Capturing his thoughts and feelings about natural history, folk culture, and nature's beauty, this text is considered one of the author's best prose pieces.
Poems of Edward Thomas
Author | : Edward Thomas |
Publsiher | : Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2012-05-22 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781590515792 |
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Since the publication of Walter de la Mare's first edition of his poems in 1920, Edward Thomas has gradually come to be seen as one of the great English poets of the 20th century. Though sometimes classified with Owen, Rosenberg, and Sassoon as a "war poet," he was rather a poet who died tragically in the war. His main subjects were the English countryside and people, solitude, and the anguish of solipsism. As de la Mare wrote eighty years ago, "When Edward Thomas was killed in Flanders, a mirror of England was shattered of so pure and true a crystal that a clearer and tenderer reflection of it can be found no other where than in these poems." This complete collection of Thomas's poems returns us to the ongoing relevance of this essential poet. Revealing a poet whose work resonates in our times, this volume will be returned to again and again. The sorrow of true love is a great sorrow And true love parting blackens a bright morrow: Yet almost they equal joys, since their despair Is but hope blinded by its tears, and clear Above the storm the heavens wait to be seen. But greater sorrow from less love has been That can mistake lack of despair for hope And knows not tempest and the perfect scope Of summer, but a frozen drizzle perpetual Of drops that from remorse and pity fall And cannot ever shine in the sun or thaw, Removed eternally from the sun's law. - Last Poem [The sorrow of true love]
In Pursuit of Spring
Author | : Edward Thomas |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2013-05-14 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781291417883 |
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Spring was late in 1913 and Edward Thomas decided to go and search for winter's grave and the tell-tale signs of season's turn - he set out to cycle westwards from London to the Quantocks.Edward Thomas 1878-1917 turned from writing prose to poetry in 1914. His work as a poet has been widely celebrated and admired - Ted Hughes described Thomas as "the father of us all".The Pursuit of Spring, originally published in 1914, bridges the divide between Thomas the journalist/critic and Thomas the highly regarded poet.
Edward Thomas
Author | : Eleanor Farjeon |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Poets, English |
ISBN | : UCAL:B3477940 |
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The Icknield Way
Author | : Edward Thomas |
Publsiher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2022-11-13 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547398851 |
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This title is one of Thomas's essays on travel, which portraits the English countryside enriched with interesting historical details. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) was a British poet, essayist, and novelist. Thomas's poems are noted for their attention to the English countryside and a certain colloquial style. His career in poetry only came after he had already been a successful writer and literary critic. In 1915, he enlisted in the British Army to fight in the First World War and was killed in action during the Battle of Arras in 1917, soon after he arrived in France. The short poem In Memoriam exemplifies how his poetry blends the themes of war and the countryside. "Much has been written of travel, far less of the road. Writers have treated the road as a passive means to an end, and honoured it most when it has been an obstacle; they leave the impression that a road is a connection between two points which only exists when the traveller is upon it." (Edward Thomas, The Icknield Way)
The Poetry Of Edward Thomas
Author | : Andrew Motion |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2011-09-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781446498187 |
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When Edward Thomas died at Arras in 1917 few people thought of him as a poet. Yet in the two years before his death, after a lifetime writing prose, Thomas wrote some of the most enduring poems of his day: poems of war, nature, friendship, despair and exultation. Andrew Motion's pioneering study of Thomas' life and achievement is scholarly yet utterly absorbing, combining an account of his struggles as a writer with perceptive readings of individual poems. Andrew Motion's books include a biography, The Lamberts, George, Constant and Kil, and several prize-winning collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Love in a Life. He is currently writing the authorized biography of Philip Larkin.
The Annotated Collected Poems
Author | : Edward Thomas |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105131645421 |
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Edward Thomas wrote a lifetime's poetry in two years. Already a dedicated prose writer and influential critic, he became a poet only in December 1914. In April 1917 he was killed at Arras. This book includes all his poems and draws on freshly available archive material.
Edward Thomas from Adlestrop to Arras
Author | : Jean Moorcroft Wilson |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2015-05-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781408187142 |
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This is the extraordinary life of a poetic genius. Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet. A war poet is not one who chooses to commemorate or celebrate a war, but one who reacts against having a war thrust upon him. His great friend Robert Frost wrote 'his poetry is so very brave, so unconsciously brave.' Apart from a most illuminating understanding of his poetry, Dr Wilson shows how Thomas' life alone makes for absorbing reading: his early marriage, his dependence on laudanum, his friendships with Joseph Conrad, Edward Garnett, Rupert Brooke and Hilaire Belloc among others. The novelist Eleanor Farjeon entered into a curious menage a trois with him and his wife. He died in France in 1917, on the first day of the Battle of Arras. This is the stuff of which myths are made and posterity has been quick to oblige. But this has tended to obscure his true worth as a writer, as Dr Wilson argues. Edward Thomas's poems were not published until some months after his death, but they have never since been out of print. Described by Ted Hughes as 'the father of us all', Thomas's distinctively modern sensibility is probably the one most in tune with our twenty-first century outlook. He occupies a crucial place in the development of twentieth century poetry.