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…mehr
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. This is the extraordinary life of a poetic genius.
Jean Moorcroft Wilson is a celebrated biographer and leading expert on the First World War poets. Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper biography prize for her Isaac Rosenberg, she has also written biographies of Siegfried Sassoon, Charles Hamilton Sorley and Edward Thomas. She has lectured for many years at the University of London, as well as in the United States and South Africa. She is married to the nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, on whom she has also written a widely-praised biography of place.
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Map of 'The Edward Thomas Country', Steep, Hampshire List of Illustrations Family Trees of Edward Thomas's Father and Mother Line Drawing of Edward Thomas by Ernest Thomas Introduction 1 Beginnings (1878 1880) 2 'All Being, Doing and Suffering' (1880 1888) 3 'The Foolish Years' (1889 1893) 4 St Paul's and Helen Noble: Alone Together (1894 1897) 5 A Glimpse of Paradise (October 1897 September 1898) 6 Paradise Gained (1898 1899) 7 Paradise Lost (1899 1900) 8 Grub Street (September 1900 September 1901) 9 Rose Acre Cottage (October 1901 July 1903) 10 'The Valley of the Shadow': Ivy Cottage, Bearsted Green (July 1903 May 1904) 11 Elses Farm (May 1904 October 1906) 12 Berryfield Cottage: 'When First I Came Here I Had Hope' (December 1909 December 1910) 13 Hope and Loss of Hope (January 1907 December 1909) 14 'Your Hurried and Harried Prose Man': Wick Green (December 1909 December 1910) 15 The Bax Baynes Effect (1911 1912) 16 Pursued by the Other in Pursuit of Spring (January September 1913) 17 'The Only Brother I Ever Had' (6 October 1913 March 1914) 18 'While We Two Walked Slowly Together': Thomas and Frost in Gloucestershire (April July 1914) 19 The Sun Used to Shine (August September 1914) 20 The Road Taken (September November 1914) 21 'The Only Begetter' (December 1914) 22 This England (January February 1915) 23 Marlborough and the Fields of Flanders (March July 1915) 24 The Extreme Decision (July November 1915) 25 'A Heart that was Dark' (November 1915 August 1916) 26 The Long Goodbye (August 1916 January 1917) 27 'No More Goodbyes Now' (January April 1917) Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
Map of 'The Edward Thomas Country', Steep, Hampshire List of Illustrations Family Trees of Edward Thomas's Father and Mother Line Drawing of Edward Thomas by Ernest Thomas Introduction 1 Beginnings (1878 1880) 2 'All Being, Doing and Suffering' (1880 1888) 3 'The Foolish Years' (1889 1893) 4 St Paul's and Helen Noble: Alone Together (1894 1897) 5 A Glimpse of Paradise (October 1897 September 1898) 6 Paradise Gained (1898 1899) 7 Paradise Lost (1899 1900) 8 Grub Street (September 1900 September 1901) 9 Rose Acre Cottage (October 1901 July 1903) 10 'The Valley of the Shadow': Ivy Cottage, Bearsted Green (July 1903 May 1904) 11 Elses Farm (May 1904 October 1906) 12 Berryfield Cottage: 'When First I Came Here I Had Hope' (December 1909 December 1910) 13 Hope and Loss of Hope (January 1907 December 1909) 14 'Your Hurried and Harried Prose Man': Wick Green (December 1909 December 1910) 15 The Bax Baynes Effect (1911 1912) 16 Pursued by the Other in Pursuit of Spring (January September 1913) 17 'The Only Brother I Ever Had' (6 October 1913 March 1914) 18 'While We Two Walked Slowly Together': Thomas and Frost in Gloucestershire (April July 1914) 19 The Sun Used to Shine (August September 1914) 20 The Road Taken (September November 1914) 21 'The Only Begetter' (December 1914) 22 This England (January February 1915) 23 Marlborough and the Fields of Flanders (March July 1915) 24 The Extreme Decision (July November 1915) 25 'A Heart that was Dark' (November 1915 August 1916) 26 The Long Goodbye (August 1916 January 1917) 27 'No More Goodbyes Now' (January April 1917) Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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