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Jean Moorcroft Wilson - Edward Thomas : From Adlestrop to Arras - A Biography book TXT, EPUB

9781408187135
English

1408187132
A war poet is not one who chooses to commemorate or celebrate a war, but one who reacts against having a war thrust upon him. Along with Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is, by any reckoning, a major World War I poet.Alongside an illuminating understanding of Thomas's poetry, Jean Moorcroft Wilson explores the intriguing circumstances of the poet's life: his early marriage, his dependence on laudanum, his lively social life, which included many notable writers-among them Joseph Conrad, Edward Garnett, Rupert Brooke, and Hilaire Belloc-and even a menage a trois with novelist Eleanor Farjeon. But though Thomas's personal life is the stuff of which myths are made-which posterity has been quick to oblige-Wilson pushes against this instinct, arguing that it has obscured Thomas's true worth as a writer.Edward Thomas's poems were not published until some months after his death in 1917, but they have never since been out of print. Described by Ted Hughes as "the father of us all," Thomas occupies a crucial place in the development of twentieth century poetry, with a distinctively modern sensibility remarkably in tune with our twenty-first century outlook. This is the extraordinary life of a poetic genius.", Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet. A war poet is not one who chooses to commemorate or celebrate a war, but one who reacts against having a war thrust upon him. His great friend Robert Frost wrote 'His poetry is so very brave, so unconsciously brave.' Apart from a most illuminating understanding of his poetry, Dr Wilson shows how Thomas' life alone makes for absorbing reading: his early marriage, his dependence on laudanum, his friendships with Conrad, Edward Garnett, Rupert Brooke and Hilaire Belloc among others. The novelist Eleanor Farjeon entered into a curious menage a trois with him and his wife. He died in France in 1917, on the first day of the Battle of Arras. This is the stuff of which myths are made and posterity has been quick to oblige. But this has tended to obscure his true worth as a writer, as Dr Wilson argues. Edward Thomas's poems were not published until some months after his death, but they have never since been out of print. Described by Ted Hughes as 'the father of us all', Thomas's distinctively modern sensibility is probably the one most in tune with our twenty-first century outlook.He occupies a crucial place in the development of twentieth century poetry. This is the extraordinary life of a poetic genius., Edward Thomas is one of the major poets of the First World War. Here is the first full biography of him for thirty years.

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