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Under the Same Moon - Edward Thomas and the English Lyric (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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Under the Same Moon - Edward Thomas and the English Lyric (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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A hundred years ago Edward Thomas was killed in the Battle of Arras
(April 1917). The reputation of his poetry has never been higher.
Edna Longley has already edited Thomas's poems and prose. She now
marks his centenary, and adds to the growing field of Thomas
studies, with this close reading of his poetry. Longley places the
lyric poem at the centre of Thomas's poetry and of his thinking
about poetry. Drawing on Thomas's own remarkable critical writings,
she argues that his importance to emergent 'modern poetry' has yet
to be fully appreciated. Thomas, as a leading reviewer of poetry in
the early 1900s, was deeply engaged with the traditions of poetry
in the English language, as well as with contemporary poetry. Under
the Same Moon takes a fresh look at Thomas's relation to the
Romantic poets, to Great War poetry, to Robert Frost, to W.B.
Yeats. By making detailed comparisons between their poems, Longley
shows how the aesthetics of Thomas and Frost complement one another
across the Atlantic. She argues, perhaps controversially, that we
should think about Great War poetry from the perspective of Thomas
as 'war poet' and critic of war poetry. And she suggests that to
focus on Thomas is to open up poetic relations in the
'Anglo-Celtic' archipelago. Under the Same Moon is also a study of
lyric poetry: its sources, structures and forms; the kinds of
meaning it creates. Longley asks what exactly happened when, in
December 1914, Thomas morphed from a prose-writer into a poet; and
she approaches the lyric from a psychological angle by comparing
Thomas with Philip Larkin.
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