Elected Friends - Softcover

Thomas, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1870612728 ISBN 13: 9781870612722

Publisher: Enitharmon Press, 1997

Synopsis

As Vernon Scannell points out in his introduction, the poetry and prose of Edward Thomas (1878-1917) has always attracted an admiring and devoted readership, especially among other poets, who have valued it for its great originality and beauty. In this anthology of poems for and about Edward Thomas, Anne Harvey has compiled a fascinating testimony of the influence Thomas has had both on his contemporaries and on subsequent generations of poets. Among the elegies and tributes of his contemporaries are poems by Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, Eleanor Farjeon, W. H. Davies, Wilfrid Gibson and Ivor Gurney; a younger generation is represented by Alun Lewis, Norman Nicholson and Geoffrey Grigson; and then to give an impression of the enduring importance of Thomas there are poems by distinguished writers of the present time, including Derek Walcott, Elizabeth Jennings, Dannie Abse, P.J. Kavanagh, Peter Porter, Alan Brownjohn, Gavin Ewart, Leslie Norris, Elizabeth Bartlett, Michael Longley, Jeremy Hooker and Andrew Motion.

About this title

About the Author

Edward Thomas was born in London in 1878 and educated at St Paul’s School and Lincoln College, Oxford. While still an undergraduate, he published his first book, The Woodland Life, and married Helen Noble, with whom he had three children. Thomas became a professional author, producing over twenty prose books, as well as a novel (The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans), a biography of Richard Jefferies, and critical studies of Maurice Maeterlinck, Lafcadio Hearn, George Borrow, Walter Pater, Swinburne and Keats. He also introduced editions of Borrow, George Herbert, Christopher Marlowe and William Cobbett, and wrote hundreds of book reviews and articles. Encouraged by Robert Frost, he began writing poetry in 1914 producing a remarkable body of poetry in the next few years. Only a few poems were published in his lifetime, under the pseudonym Edward Eastaway; Poems by Edward Thomas was published in October 1917 and the first edition of his Collected Poems in 1920. Thomas joined the Artists’ Rifles in 1915. He was killed on Easter Sunday 1917 during the Battle of Arras.

Review

Epitaph For Edward Thomas by Julian Abraham
Not Adlestrop by Dannie Abse
The Dead Poet by Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong
Listeners by Neil Astley
Edward Thomas In Surinders by Elizabeth (1924-) Bartlett
To Edward Thomas by Gordon Bottomley
On An Inyanga Road by Noel Harry Brettell
Adlestrop 1987 by Alan Brownjohn
Desire by Leonard Clark
Pilgrimage by Humphrey Clucas
Adlestrop Revisited by William Cooke
Memorial Stone by William Cooke
Elegy For Edward Thomas, Sels. by Charles Dalmon
Killed In Action by William Henry Davies
Sotto Voce by Walter John De La Mare
To E. T.: 1917 by Walter John De La Mare
Edward Thomas by Basil Dowling
Lattermath by Tom Durham
Gravely Then by Loren Eiseley
April, 1917, Sels. by Vivian Locke Ellis
Edward Thomas by Gavin Ewart
Second Love: 41 by Eleanor Farjeon
Second Love: 42 by Eleanor Farjeon
Second Love: 43 by Eleanor Farjeon
Second Love: 44 by Eleanor Farjeon
Iris By Night by Robert Frost
To E. T. by Robert Frost
For Edward Thomas by Roland Gant
Of Steep by John Gibbens
The Golden Room by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Edward Thomas by Geoffrey Grigson
The Mangel-bury by Ivor Gurney
The Poets Of My County by Ivor Gurney
Instead Of His Voice by James Guthrie
Edward Thomas by Phoebe Hesketh
At Steep by Jeremy Hooker
Glimpse by Teresa Hooley
At The Grave Of Edward Thomas by David Hughes
Edward Eastaway by John Jenkins
For Edward Thomas by Elizabeth Jennings
A Garland For Edward Thomas by Brian Jones
Edward Thomas In Heaven by Patrick Joseph Gregory Kavanagh
Edward Thomas by Jean Kenward
Steep, By Petersfield by Christopher Lee
All Day It Has Rained by Alun Lewis
To Edward Thomas by Alun Lewis
Edward Thomas's War Diary by Michael Longley
Mole by Michael Longley
The Imaginative Franchise by John Loveday
The Country 1976 by Jan Marsh
Steep To Selborne by Jan Marsh
For Edward Thomas Killed At Arras by Geoffrey Matthews
Toot Baldon, Sels. by Andrew Motion
To Edward Thomas by Pamela Middleton Murray
Do You Remember Adlestrop? by Norman Nicholson
Glass Window, In Memory Of Edward Thomas At Eastbury Church by Leslie Norris
Ransoms by Leslie Norris
Edward Thomas: Killed In Action 1917 by J. H. B. Peel
Remembered by J. H. B. Peel
Good Vibes by Peter Porter
Edward Thomas Walking by Arnold Rattenbury
Adlestrop by Hardiman Scott
Words by Hardiman Scott
Truly Yours by Fred Sedgwick
Helen Thomas Visits Ivor Gurney In The Asylum by Matt Simpson
In Remembrance Of Edward Thomas by Keith Spencer
At Agny by Sean Street
The Poets' Way by Sean Street
In Memory Of Edward Thomas, 1878-1917 by David Sutton
Place-names by David Sutton
Trying For Truth by Kim Taplin
To E. T. by David Thomas
In Memoriam: Edward Thomas by Julian Thomas
On Beauty by Douglas Verrall
Homage To Edward Thomas by Derek Walcott
The Envoy by Peter Walton
Edward Thomas Memorial by Sylvia Townsend Warner
A Landscape For Edward Thomas by Andrew Waterman
The Icknield Way by Robert Wells
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: Enitharmon Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1870612728
• ISBN 13: 9781870612722
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136
• Editor: Harvey Anne