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Edward Thomas was born in Lambeth, London, in 1878, and educated at St Paul's College and Lincoln College, Oxford. Thomas voluntarily enlisted in the Artists' Rifles in 1915 and was commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1916. He was killed in action at Arras on 9 April 1917. Since his death his reputation as a poet has grown steadily, but the prose work is largely inaccessible or unknown. His books have often been dismissed as bread-and-butter work by a poet who was able to blossom only when his soldier's pay released him from wage-earning. Roland Gant has made a selection from Thomas's writings on country matters which will be welcomed not only by admirers of his poetry but also by readers interested in pre-1914 rural life. Drawing on nearly twenty books such as The South Country, Wales, The Heart of England and volumes of essays, Grant has arranged his extracts under the headings 'Roads and Footpaths', 'The Lie of the Land', 'Figures in the Landscape' and 'Through the Year'. Interspersed are poems that often distil the theme of a prose description and show that Thomas's strength as a poet is more than equal to his creative achievement as a writer of prose.… (más)
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Introduction - 'I love birds more than books', 'I enjoyed the beauty of Spring mixed with the sadness of death' p21 from poem Roads 'Now all roads lead to France', this line used by Matthew Hollis in his book about the final years of ET's life. p30. 'carved out of the silentness' from Light and Twilight. p34. 'at last the heart of it at peaty Tregaron, or the soul of it on Plynlimmon itself'. From entering Wales. p40. 'and as this is the bottom of the sheet, and ale is better than ink, though no substitute'. Dedication to Harry Hooton in The Icknield Way. p70. 'but when thought followed vision, as, alas! it did' From The Heart of England. p70. 'Had I offended against the commonwealth of living things?' From The Heart of England. p157. 'The gold lilies have unclosed on Hawswater'. From The Last Sheaf - this is the first of ET's writing that I have encountered located in the Lake District p158. A reference to the musical stones now located in the Keswick Museum. p164. 'In its noise and myriad aspect I feel the mortal beauty of immortal things' From The South Country.
FURTHER READING: The South Country (1909) In Pursuit of Spring (1914) The Heart of England (1906)
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Edward Thomas was born in Lambeth, London, in 1878, and educated at St Paul's College and Lincoln College, Oxford. Thomas voluntarily enlisted in the Artists' Rifles in 1915 and was commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1916. He was killed in action at Arras on 9 April 1917. Since his death his reputation as a poet has grown steadily, but the prose work is largely inaccessible or unknown. His books have often been dismissed as bread-and-butter work by a poet who was able to blossom only when his soldier's pay released him from wage-earning. Roland Gant has made a selection from Thomas's writings on country matters which will be welcomed not only by admirers of his poetry but also by readers interested in pre-1914 rural life. Drawing on nearly twenty books such as The South Country, Wales, The Heart of England and volumes of essays, Grant has arranged his extracts under the headings 'Roads and Footpaths', 'The Lie of the Land', 'Figures in the Landscape' and 'Through the Year'. Interspersed are poems that often distil the theme of a prose description and show that Thomas's strength as a poet is more than equal to his creative achievement as a writer of prose.