Edward Thomas, poet, essayist, and critic, with some thirty books to his name, was thirty-nine when he was killed in the Arras offensive on Easter Day, 1917. F.R. Leavis singled him out as "an original poet of rare quality," and he is generally considered one of the finest poets of the modern era. This luminous biography, based on the author's complete access to the papers of Thomas--including some eighteen hundred letters--offers an intimate glimpse into the life of this great poet, drawing the reader into the strains of Thomas's personal life, revealing the characteristically contrasting sides of Thomas's perceptions, and analyzing his empathy with Robert Frost and the increasing confidence of his last best work in poetry.

Edward Thomas: A Portrait (Oxford Paperbacks)

History

Thomas, R. George

Americas

Oxford University Press

Edward Thomas 1878-1917, published author, critic, and essayist, died at 39, a casualty of World War I. At the suggestion of his friend Robert Frost, Thomas began to write poetry and six months after his death his first book of poems was published. As the prose writer died, the poet was born, and it is on the poems that his reputation still rests. This new biography--based on some 1,800 of Thomas's letters--tells the story of his courtship, his restless marriage, and his tormented need to choose between happiness with his wife and children and the need to find his way as a writer alone. With delicacy and understanding the book describes Thomas's complex character and his pilgrimage on the road to self-discovery, and reveals how the emergence of Thomas the poet became inevitable.

Edward Thomas: A Portrait

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Edward Thomas (1878-1917) adored the countryside and was capable of minutely observing it; his acute perception of man in his natural environment, and his sensitivity to the plight of social misfits and victims of the industrial age, accord with his constant search for an ideal literary medium. This volume brings together twenty-five memorable stories from four separate collections never previously reprinted.

The Pilgrim and Other Tales (Everyman's Library)

Literature & Fiction

Thomas, Edward

History & Criticism

Everymans Library

Review “. . . compresses much erudition into barely one hundred pages, considering the works chronologically and characterising Thomas's mystic intensity as a product, not of his Englishness, but of his Welshness . . .” –English Studies (English Studies)

Edward Thomas (University of Wales Press - Writers of Wales)

University of Wales Press

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