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His work is an exploration of World War I, the one I found the most haunting was The Cherry Tree which laments that no one or place is untouched and no one can wed and This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong, which speaks about how similar the German and English sides truly are.
Possibly the saddest collection of poetry on my shelf. Wonderful.
This is a short collection of poetry by Edward Thomas, edited by William Cooke. Thomas was a British writer who died in 1917 after volunteering to serve in World War I. He spent most of his working life writing prose, but turned to poetry in 1914, inspired by a friendship with Robert Frost. I find it very hard to be objective about his poetry, because one of his poems ("Adlestrop") was among the first I learned by heart. I loved it then. I still love it. I consider it almost perfect.In reading t...