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Edward Thomas: Selected Letters (Hardcover, New)
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Edward Thomas: Selected Letters (Hardcover, New)
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Edward Thomas, professional author and critic, was thirty-nine when
he was killed in the Arras offensive on Easter Day, 1917. Six
months later his first collection of poems was published and his
literary reputation secured. These Selected Letters present a
uniquely vivid portrait of Thomas's life, from his time as an
undergraduate at Oxford through to his final days at the Front.
Chosen from more than 2,000 extant letters from Thomas to his
family and literary friends - including Robert Frost, Walter de la
Mare, and Eleanor Farjeon - the selection traces his struggle to
establish himself as a writer, his long and successful fight
against depression, and, amid the strain of a marriage which
sometimes brought much agony, the strength of his love for his wife
Helen. The letters, which formed a key source for R George Thomas's
highly praised biography of a poet, help substantiate the editor's
belief that despite Thomas's immense prose output and the late
flowering of his verse in 1914-1916, it was nevertheless the name
and nature of poetry that was Edward Thomas's dominant lifelong
concern.
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