The Secret Code of Edward Thomas

by Gavin Smithers

Readers and critics of Edward Thomas' poetry have always faced an intriguing and apparently insoluble question: why did a man, aged, 37, who didn't have to go to war - and who wasn't moved by patriotism or even a belief that wars solved anything - volunteer? And then why did he take the even riskier option of signing up for the Western Front? By close analysis of Edward Thomas' poems ... I believe I have the answer: a Secret Code within his poems,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1494838516
• ISBN13: 9781494838515
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.3" x 8.0"