Edward Thomas?

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Life Style, Poetry.

Answer 1

Edward (Philip) Thomas was born in Lambeth, London, of Welsh descent and he was educated at St Paul's college and then Lincoln College at Oxford University (where he studied history). A prolific writer of prose (including biographies of Richard Jeffiries, Swinburne, and Keats), and a moderately successful journalist, he began writing poetry in 1912 under the pseudonym Edward Eastaway) but did not devote himself fully to the medium until 1913 after a meeting with Robert Frost, the American poet, who by then was living in England.

For most of his adult life, Edward Thomas lived by writing prose. He wrote topographical works, biographies, critical studies, one novel, some experimental prose pieces, essays about nature and the countryside, and a vast number of book reviews. These writings are of variable quality, but they are always at least worth reading, and some have been reprinted many times on their intrinsic merits, quite separate from how they might anticipate Thomas's poetry: The Heart of England, The South Country and A Literary Pilgrim in England are such works.

Thomas enlisted in 1915 with the Artist's Rifles as a private but was killed two years later at Arras having achieved the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. His poems include some of the most noted pieces from the genre, capturing the love of the English countryside unlike any other.

Thomas enlisted in 1915 with the Artist's Rifles as a private but was killed two years later at Arras having achieved the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. His poems include some of the most noted pieces from the genre, capturing the love of the English countryside unlike any other.

Edward Thomas is widely regarded as a major poet and his posthumous influence on English poetry has been considerable. His poetry was all written during the last few years of his life, before this remarkable flowering of genius was cut short by death in action at the Battle of Arras. The poems remain as much alive now as when they were written, quietly yet surely capturing the essence of the English countryside which Edward Thomas knew through all his senses. He is the least rhetorical of poets, modestly sharing his experiences with his readers and leading them into the reality behind the words until, for instance, we too can almost hear 'all the birds of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire'.

Early admirers of Edward Thomas's poetry included Walter de la Mare and Ivor Gurney, and leading contemporary poets such as Ted Hughes, RS Thomas and Jeremy Hooker have acknowledged their debt to him. The literary scholar FR Leavis singled him out as 'an original poet of rare quality' and Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate, has nominated 'Old Man' by Edward Thomas as his favourite poem 'because it so brilliantly proves, as do all his poems, that you can speak softly and yet let your voice carry a long way'. Edward Thomas is commemorated in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, by pictorial windows in two parish churches, and by a sarsen boulder memorial on the hillside above Steep in Hampshire.


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Answer 2

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Answer 3

Don't know what your actual question is, but he wrote poem "This Ploughman" "The Drover" and "many's a frozen night" mainly poetry I think

Answer 4

Not a clue but heh at least I get 2 points for answering your question

Answer 5

Hi, here is something to eat up.

http://www.edwardthomas.co.uk/
http://www.envoy.dircon.co.uk/etf/home.html
http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Thomas.html

Peace out.

Answer 6

who???