Killed at Arras in 1917, Edward Thomas left behind him a short,
vivid history of his own early life, covering the period from his
birth to his entry into St Paul's. Though a fragment, in many
senses it is far more: in the words of its author 'no less than an
autobiography . . . an attempt to put down on paper what [this
author] sees when he thinks of himself from 1878 to about 1895'.
The Childhood of Edward Thomas was not published until 1938, over
two decades after Thomas originally showed the manuscript to a
publisher. Those eventual publishers, Faber & Faber, were
building on their release two years earlier of Thomas's Collected
Poems, for which he was becoming best known. This edition includes
Edward Thomas's 'War Diary,' a record of the last three months of
his life when, as an elderly - at thirty-eight - subaltern he
fought among the misery of the trenches. To witness Thomas's
childhood memoir and wartime diaries in such close proximity is to
have a moving incarnation of his distinctive voice, its clarity and
- even in war - its unfailing attention to his fellow-creatures.
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