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Poets of the Great War: Edward Thomas

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  • ENGLISH

    Language
  • 224

    Pages
  • 9780571313631

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  • 2 mm

    Width
  • 13 mm

    Height
  • 20 gram

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  • POETS

    Edition
  • HARDCOVER

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  • 26 AUGUST 2014

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    No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by leading poets and biographers of our present day.When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished. But in the years since his death, his work has come to be cherished for its rare, sustained vision of the natural world and as 'a mirror...  Read More

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    Edward Thomas

    Philip Edward Thomas (3 March 1878 – 9 April 1917) 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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