Edward Thomas's Poets
Contributors: Judy Kendall (Editor)
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.; Carcanet
Published: April 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781857549089
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry / Single Author / British & Irish; Poetry
Description: "Edward Thomas is one of the best-loved of English poets, and a model of integrity for many of his successors. His poetry was written during the space of just over two years, before he was killed in the First World War. Those years lie at the heart of Edward Thomas's Poets. Judy Kendall's gathering of poems and letters embeds that brief period of intense poetic creativity within the wider narrative of Thomas's life." "For the first time, letters by Thomas about writing and publishing are set alongside his poems, revealing the occasions of their composition and illuminating the processes of recollection, revision and development that transformed him into a poet. Interleaved with Thomas's own poems and letters are works by the literary friends whom he criticised and admired, and whose influence he absorbed: Walter de la Mare, W.H. Hudson, Robert Frost, Eleanor Farjeon and others." "Many of the letters included here have not been collected before or are out of print. Enhanced by Judy Kendall's detailed notes and bibliographies, Edward Thomas's Poets provides a new perspective on Thomas's reading and writing of poetry, illuminating specific poems and revealing the complex sources of his mature verse."--Jacket.