Annotated Collected Poems

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, at the age of 36. In April 1917 he was killed at Arras. Often viewed as a ''war poet'', he wrote nothing directly about the trenches; also seen as a ''nature poet'', his symbolic reach and generic range expose the limits of that category too. A cen...