
Poetry Of Edward Thomas
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 strug...
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 strug...