Edward Thomas: A Portrait - Hardcover

Thomas, R. George

 
9780198185277: Edward Thomas: A Portrait
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198185278 ISBN 13: 9780198185277
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1985

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

R. George Thomas is at University College, Cardiff (Emeritus).

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
1985
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198185278
ISBN 13 
9780198185277
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
342

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