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• Title:Edward Thomas : from Adlestrop to Arras : a biography / Jean Moorcroft Wilson.
  
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• Author/Creator:Wilson, Jean Moorcroft, author.
  
• Published/Created:London : Bloomsbury, 2015.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PR6039.H55 Z97 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917.
  Poets, English--20th century--Biography.
  
• Genre/Form: Biographies.
  
• Description:xv, 480 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, 25 cm
  
• Summary:In this first full-length biography of Edward Thomas for three decades, Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson, a leading authority on the poets of the First World War, brings new life to the story of the man now acknowledge to be one of the major literary figures of the period, the poet and prose writer whom Walter de la Mare called 'a mirror of England'. Extensively illustrated throughout with a wealth of new material and told with clarity, panache and wit, Thomas's life makes for absorbing reading: his early forced marriage, his dependence on opium, his friendships with leading figures such as Joseph Conrad, Edward Garnett, Rupurt Brooke, Walter de la Mare, Hilaire Belloc, Eleanor Farjeon and Robert Frost and the events leading up to his death in France in 1917. Moorcroft Wilson dispels the myth-making surrounding Thomas in order to reveal his true worth as a writer and as a war poet equal in talent to such great contemporaries as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Rupert Brooke. With startling new information on the true details of Thomas's death at the Battle of Arras on 9 April 1917, his attitude to the army and his relationship with his loving wife, Helen, as well as a reconsideration of the fashioning of Thomas as depressive and melancholic, Edward Thomas: From Adlestrop to Arras discovers the man whose contribution to English poetry cannot be overstated, whose work can now be seen to be 'situated on the cusp of history and on the brink of modern selfhood'. In this remarkable contribution to our knowledge of the poet, Moorcroft Wilson shows that Thomas's work could not be more important to the literary world of today; this is the extraordinary life of a poetic genius. -- from dust jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781408187135 (hbk.)
  1408187132 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Beginnings (1878
  1880)
  2. `All Being, Doing and Suffering' (1880
  1888)
  3. `The Foolish Years'(1889
  1893)
  4. St Paul's and Helen Noble: Alone Together (1894
  1897)
  5. Glimpse of Paradise (October 1897
  September 1898)
  6. Paradise Gained (1898
  1899)
  7. Paradise Lost (1899
  1900)
  8. Grub Street (September 1900
  September 1901)
  9. Rose Acre Cottage (October 1901
  July 1903)
  10. "The Valley of the Shadow': Ivy Cottage, Bearsted Green (July 1903
  May 1904)
  11. Elses Farm (May 1904
  October 1906)
  12. Berryfield Cottage: `When First I Came Here I Had Hope' (December 1906
  February 1907)
  13. Hope and Loss of Hope (January 1907
  December 1909)
  14. `Your Hurried and Harried Prose Man': Wick Green (December 1909
  December 1910)
  15. Bax
  Baynes Effect (1911
  1912)
  16. Pursued by the Other in Pursuit of Spring (January
  September 1913)
  17. `The Only Brother I Ever Had' (6 October 1913
  March 1914)
  18. `While We Two Walked Slowly Together': Thomas and Frost in Gloucestershire (April
  July 1914)
  19. Sun Used to Shine (August
  September 1914)
  20. Road Taken (September
  November 1914)
  21. `The Only Begetter'(December 1914)
  22. This England (January
  February 1915)
  23. Marlborough and the Fields of Flanders (March
  July 1915)
  24. Extreme Decision (July
  November 1915)
  25. `A Heart that was Dark' (November 1915
  August 1916)
  26. Long Goodbye (August 1916
  January 1917)
  27. `No More Goodbyes Now' (January
  April 1917).