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First of all, I'll say that I found it pleasant just reading the poems of Edward Thomas because they're so lyrical & fluid. It's easy to read them. That being said, I found Thomas rather difficult to understand. I'm sure it would have helped if I were 1) a poet, and 2) an English poet. Its clear that Thomas had an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the environmental nature of the places where he lived, but unfamiliarity with that is a real handicap in understanding what he's saying, especially bec...
for thomas and frostthe two poems could bebrokering to one anotherat a yoke in the road, keeperpins set, bows emptyof necks and the beambetween them easedand uneased depending(you decide each)
This annotated edition comes with useful, contextual notes by Edna Longley, a rich introduction, and a large collection of poems written by Thomas. This is the go-to read for anyone who wants to explore this enigmatic poet of the World War I era.
This is the essential book for anyone interested in the work of this great writer. As well as the complete poems, the book has extensive notes providing the contexts, the sources, and clues to what inspired, this very fine poet's work. Seamus Heaney described the book as "a crowning achievement by Thomas's best advocate, approachable by the beginner and invaluable to the specialist, with a critical apparatus which is at once a biography tracing the growth of the poet's mind and an engrossing ant...
Paní Edna je zachráncem všech neznalců poezie (mě, mě a zase mě) , kteří byli donuceni si poezii přečíst a pak se tvářit, že jí chápou.
Edward Thomas only wrote 140 poems in a brief burst of late creativity between 1914-1917, though he had spent his life as a professional writer of prose churning out an estimated 1,000,000 words of essays, books and reviews between 1900 and 1914. He was a respected reviewer of poetry long before he began writing it: It was he who famously said Ezra Pound was in danger of meaning what he wrote rather then writing what he meant. Amongst those 140 poems are some lyrics which you could set beside Ye...
Sometimes I wonder if we should keep 5 stars just for Tolstoy or such, but if any Minor Poet deserves all five, it's Thomas, because it just is so Thomas and it's not Yeats or Eliot, but it's one man looking at the world and writing it down.
