The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas - Hardcover

Thomas, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198125674 ISBN 13: 9780198125679

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1978

Synopsis

Since the publication of Walter de la Mare's first edition of his poems in 1920, Edward Thomas has gradually come to be recognised as one of the great English poets of the 20th century.

Though sometimes classified with Owen, Rosenberg and Sassoon as a 'war poet', he was rather a poet who died tragically in the war, and whose main subjects were the English countryside and its people, and the solitude of the observing self. The present edition offers the complete poems together with detailed editorial apparatus in what has become acknowledged as the standard edition by R. George Thomas. It also includes Thomas's remarkable prose War Diary of 1917.

About this title

About the Author

Edward Thomas was born in Lambeth, London, in 1878, and educated at St Paul's College and Lincoln College, Oxford. Though his reputation is built on his poetry - which he took up at the suggestion of his friend Robert Frost - he was also a prolific writer of prose, much of it dedicated to capturing his love of the English countryside. 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. He is buried in France and commemorated in Westminster Abbey.

Review

Adlestrop
After Rain
After You Speak
Ambition
April
As The Team's Head Brass
The Ash Grove
Aspens
The Barn
The Barn And The Down
Beauty
Birds' Nests
Blenheim Oranges
The Bridge
The Brook
Bugle Call
But These Things Also
A Cat
Celandine
The Chalk Pit
The Cherry Trees
The Child In The Orchard
The Child On The Cliff
Cock-crow
The Combe
The Cuckoo
The Dark Forest
Digging (1)
Digging (2)
Fifty Faggots
First Known When Lost
For These
The Gallows
A Gentleman
The Glory
'go Now'
Good-night
The Green Roads
The Gypsy
Haymaking
Head And Bottle
Health
The Hollow Wood
Home (1)
Home (2)
Home (3)
House And Man
Household Poems: 1. Bronwen
Household Poems: 2. Merfyn
Household Poems: 3. Myfanwy
Household Poems: 4. Helen
The Huxter
I Built Myself A House Of Glass
I Never Saw That Land Before
In Memoriam (easter 1915)
Interval
It Rains
July
The Lane
Last Poem
Liberty
Lights Out
Lob
The Lofty Sky
Lovers
M. E. T.
Man And Dog
The Manor Farm
March
March The 3rd
May 23
Melancholy
The Mill-pond
The Mill-water
The Mountain Chapel
The New House
The New Year
November Sky
October
Old Man
An Old Song (1)
An Old Song (2)
The Other
Out In The Dark Over The Snow
Over The Hills
The Owl
P. H. T.
Parting
The Path
The Penny Whistle
The Pond
A Private
Rain
Roads
Sedge Warblers (cancelled Version)
Sedge-warblers (revised Version)
She Dotes On What The Wild Birds Say
The Sheiling
The Signpost
Snow
Some Eyes Condemn
Song (1)
Song (2)
Song (3)
Sonnet: 2. February Afternoon
Sonnet: 3. The Wind's Song
Sonnet: 5
Sonnet: 6
The Source
Sowing
The Sun Used To Shine
Swedes
The Swifts
A Tale (cancelled Version)
A Tale (revised Version)
Tall Nettles
Tears
Thaw
There Was A Time
There's Nothing Like The Sun
These Things That Poets Said
This Is No Case Of Petty Right Or Wrong
The Thrush
Tonight
The Trumpet
Two Houses
Two Pewits
Under The Woods
The Unknown
The Unknown Bird
Up In The Wind
The Wasp Trap
The Watchers
What Will They Do?
When First
When He Should Laugh
When We Two Walked In Lent
Will You Come?
Wind And Mist
The Word
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0198125674
• ISBN 13: 9780198125679
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 486