Now All Roads Lead To France A Life Of Edward Thomas

Author : Matthew Hollis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039308907X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now All Roads Lead to France: A Life of Edward Thomas written by Matthew Hollis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Costa Biography Award, a fascinating exploration of one of the 20th century's most influential poets.

Author : Matthew Hollis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now All Roads Lead to France written by Matthew Hollis and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Edward Thomas was the most beguiling of the poets who lost their lives in the First World War. More or less unread in his lifetime, his writing has had a powerful influence on poetry today. This account of his final five years is centred on his extraordinary friendship with [the American poet] Robert Frost and Thomas's decision, in 1915, to enlist in the army and go to fight in France."--Publisher description.

Author : Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408187140
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras written by Jean Moorcroft Wilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Joseph 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.

Author : Edward Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906578220
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edward Thomas [and] Robert Frost written by Edward Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains poems, without any commentary, enabling them to be used either as student reference material or as 'clean' copies for the examination.

Author : Edward Thomas
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241399173
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems and Prose written by Edward Thomas and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest where all must lose Their way, however straight, Or winding, soon or late; They cannot choose.' Fired by his abiding love of the English landscape, the poetry of Edward Thomas is some of the most astonishing of the twentieth century. A journalist, essayist and critic for many years, he was encouraged to write verse by his friend Robert Frost. He produced a late outburst of poetry of extraordinary beauty and mystery about the subjects closest to his heart: rural England and its inhabitants, landscape, atmosphere, transience, endurance and death. By 1917, when he was killed on the Western Front, he had earned his place as one of England's most valued poets. This selection brings together his finest verse with his most vivid prose writings on the countryside.

Author : Edward Thomas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Annotated Collected Poems written by Edward Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Thomas wrote a lifetime's poetry in two years. Already a dedicated prose writer and influential critic, he became a poet only in December 1914. In April 1917 he was killed at Arras. This book includes all his poems and draws on freshly available archive material.

Author : Edward Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems written by Edward Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Thomas
Publisher : London ; New York : T. Nelson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
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Download or read book In Pursuit of Spring written by Edward Thomas and published by London ; New York : T. Nelson. This book was released on 1914 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Hollis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393089835
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now All Roads Lead to France: A Life of Edward Thomas written by Matthew Hollis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Costa Biography Award, a fascinating exploration of one of the twentieth century’s most influential poets. Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of the war poets. This haunting account of his final five years follows him from his beloved English countryside to the battlefield in France where he lost his life. When he met the American poet Robert Frost in 1913, Thomas was tormented by feelings of failure in his work and in his marriage. With Frost’s encouragement he began writing poem after poem as he finally found the expression for which he had spent his life searching. But the First World War put an ocean between them: Frost returned to New England while Thomas enlisted and went to fight in France. It is these roads taken—and not taken—that are at the heart of this unforgettable book, which culminates in Thomas’s tragic death on Easter Monday, 1917. Now All Roads Lead to France encompasses an astonishingly creative moment in English literature, when London was a battleground for new, ambitious writing. A generation that included W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Rupert Brooke was “making it new”—vehemently and pugnaciously—and this dazzling biography places Thomas firmly in their midst.

Author : Edward Thomas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Icknield Way written by Edward Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: