Edward Thomas: From Adlestrop to Arras: A Biography

by Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Book Overview

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:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472992261
• ISBN13: 9781472992260
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"