Edward Thomas (poet) Summary

The story of Edward Thomas, poet, is a singular one. At the age of thirty-six, having spent nearly twenty frustrating years turning out volumes of relatively undistinguished essays and journalism, Tho... Read more

The literary career of Edward Thomas was an unusual one in that he did not work in the genre for which he is now most noted--poetry--until he had put in eighteen years writing pastoral essays, critici... Read more

In the following essay, written just three years after Thomas's death, the author focuses on the intimacy and sincerity of Thomas's poems, which, the author argues, reflect a “des... Read more

In the following essay, Longley argues that Thomas's poetry destabilizes authority, perception, and time in a way that is foreign to modernist aesthetics. Relying on theories by Raymond William... Read more

In the following essay, the author disagrees with Antony Easthope's dismissal of Thomas's poem “Adelstrop” as metrically regular and “comfortable” in an uncha... Read more

In the following essay, the author, a British literary critic and editor of Rhyme magazine, concludes that Thomas is “not a great poet,” but nevertheless praises the search for truth in ... Read more

In the following essay, first delivered as a lecture in July 1954, Day Lewis, once the Poet Laureate of Great Britain from 1968 to 1972, states that as young man, he and the poet W. H. Auden considere... Read more

In the following essay, Kirkham provides close readings of such poems as “Beauty,” “Melancholy,” “Ambition,” and “Wind and Mist,” among others, ... Read more

In the following essay, the author examines Thomas's relationship to the Georgian poets, considering Thomas's depiction of nostalgia, pastoralism, and class relations in such poems as &#... Read more