caption death_date death_place pseudonym birth_place subject nationality birth_date spouse genre image article_title name occupation
thomas in 1905 9 april 1917 pas-de-calais , france edward thomas , edward & nbsp ; eastaway lambeth , surrey , england war british 3 march 1878 helen berenice noble/thomas war poetry thomasportrait.jpg edward thomas -lrb- poet -rrb-
 philip edward thomas journalist , essayist , and poet
edward thomas -lrb- poet -rrb-

philip edward thomas -lrb- 3 march 1878 -- 9 april 1917 -rrb- was an anglo-welsh poet , essayist , and novelist .
he is commonly considered a war poet , although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences , and his career in poetry only came after he had already been a successful writer and literary critic .
in 1915 , he enlisted in the british army to fight in the first world war and was killed in action during the battle of arras in 1917 , soon after he arrived in france .
