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Bookmark or Share- Edward Thomas 101 by The Editors | Poetry FoundationEdward Thomas 101. A once unsung poet rises to prominence 100 years after his death. Portrait by Sophie Herxheimer. The British writer Edward Thomas turned to poetry only three years before his death, but in that short time, he created a body of work that shaped the sensibility of modern poetry. After studying at Oxford University, Thomas ...
- Edward Thomas - biography | Great Writers InspireEdward Thomas - biography. Philip Edward Thomas (1878-1917) was born in Lambeth, London in 1878, of Welsh descent. He was educated at St Paul's College and then Lincoln College at the University of Oxford, where he studied history. A prolific writer of prose (including biographies of Richard Jefferies, Swinburne, and Keats), and a moderately ...
- Edward Thomas | Poetry FoundationEdward Thomas was a poet, critic, and biographer who is best known for his careful depictions of rural England and his prescient understanding of modernity’s tendency toward disconnection, alienation, and unsettledness. Although prominent critics and authors as Walter de la Mare, Aldous Huxley, Peter Sacks, Seamus Heaney, and Edna Longley called Edward Thomas one of England’s most ...
- 10 Edward Thomas Poems Everyone Should Read - Interesting LiteratureThe best poems by Edward Thomas (1878-1917) selected by Dr Oliver Tearle. Edward Thomas was a master of the short poem.Variously labelled a ‘Georgian poet’ and a ‘war poet‘, he was really a little of both of these, and yet not quite either of them. In a brief flurry of poetic creativity between late 1914 and his death in WWI in 1917, Thomas produced some of the finest poems of the ...
- Edward Thomas (poet) - WikipediaPhilip Edward Thomas (3 March 1878 – 9 April 1917) was a British writer of poetry and prose. He is sometimes considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences.He only started writing poetry at the age of 36, but by that time he had already been a prolific critic, biographer, nature writer and travel writer for two decades.
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