Selected Poems of Edward Thomas
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Selected Poems of Edward Thomas

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Selected Poems of Edward Thomas

About this book

When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished. But in the years since his death, his work has come to be cherished for its rare, sustained vision of the natural world and as 'a mirror of England' (Walter de la Mare). This edition, drawn from Thomas's manuscripts and typescripts as well as from his published works, offers an accessible introduction to this most resonant - and relevant - of poets.

'In his lifetime, he was known and loved by a very, loving few. Now, since his death, he is known and loved by very many, and yearly this is more so. There is in his poems and unassumingly profound sense of permanence. A war came and ditched him, but his poems stay with no other wounds than those which caused them.' Dylan Thomas

'A very fine poet. And a poet all in his own right. The accent is absolutely his own.' Robert Frost

'The one hundred and forty poems he wrote in the last two years of his life are a miracle. I can think of no body of work in English that is more mysterious.' Michael Longley

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9780571278961
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Note on the Text
  7. Table of Dates
  8. Facsimile ‘This is the Constellation of the Lyre’
  9. EDWARD THOMAS
  10. from A Diary in English Fields and Woods
  11. from Llewelyn, the Bard
  12. [Love Poetry]
  13. [Words and Subject Matter]
  14. How I Began
  15. [Rain]
  16. [On Style]
  17. [The Other Man]
  18. Insomnia
  19. Miscellanea, 1901–14
  20. This England
  21. The White Horse
  22. Old Man’s Beard
  23. Up in the Wind
  24. March
  25. Old Man
  26. The Signpost
  27. The Other
  28. The Mountain Chapel
  29. The Manor Farm
  30. An Old Song
  31. The Combe
  32. The New Year
  33. Snow
  34. Adlestrop
  35. Over the Hills
  36. Man and Dog
  37. Beauty
  38. First known when lost
  39. The Owl
  40. The Bridge
  41. Good-night
  42. But these things also
  43. The Path
  44. Wind and Mist
  45. Digging
  46. Lob
  47. Lovers
  48. In Memoriam (Easter, 1915)
  49. Head and Bottle
  50. Home
  51. Health
  52. The Chalk Pit
  53. Fifty Faggots
  54. I built myself a house of glass
  55. Words
  56. The Word
  57. Haymaking
  58. A Dream
  59. The Brook
  60. Aspens
  61. The Mill-Water
  62. Cock-Crow
  63. A Private
  64. This is no case of petty right or wrong
  65. Rain
  66. The clouds that are so light
  67. Roads
  68. February Afternoon
  69. I may come near loving you
  70. Those things that poets said
  71. No one so much as you
  72. The Unknown
  73. Celandine
  74. ‘Home’
  75. Thaw
  76. If I should ever by chance
  77. If I were to own
  78. What shall I give?
  79. And you, Helen
  80. Like the touch of rain
  81. When we two walked
  82. Tall Nettles
  83. The Watchers
  84. The Cherry Trees
  85. It rains
  86. Some eyes condemn
  87. The sun used to shine
  88. No one cares less than I
  89. As the team’s head-brass
  90. After you speak
  91. The Green Roads
  92. The Gallows
  93. Gone, gone again
  94. That girl’s clear eyes
  95. What will they do?
  96. The Trumpet
  97. When first
  98. The Child in the Orchard
  99. Lights Out
  100. The long small room
  101. The Lane
  102. Out in the dark
  103. from War Diary
  104. Notes
  105. Index of Titles and First Lines
  106. About the Author
  107. By the Same Author
  108. Copyright