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Probably the greatest English nature poet after Wordsworth. Also one of the exceptionally talented war poets (Owen, Rosenberg, Gurney, Thomas are the finest in my opinion). Except it doesn't read like war poetry because it's so deeply bound up with Thomas's love of English landscapes - the soil, the wind, rivers, coombes, his countrymen the birds (not the jingoists whom he despised) - that it's also nature poetry. Then that recurrent phrase "the dead", and that hovering sense behind the intense
This is the audiobook version of Edward Thomas poetical works. Barnaby Edwards does a good job with the reading.
After reading Ted Hughes poetry which consisted mostly about nature I wasn't looking forward to reading Edward Thomas's Selected Poems. But after reading this, it pretty much changed my views on poems based around nature. I loved how in every poem Thomas managed to relate nature to every aspect in his poetry, whether it revolving around the themes melancholy or love he depicted it beautifully.
Do I remember Adlestrop?This was one of my A-Level set texts. Now, in hindsight, it seems absolutely crazy that I sat down and read these and worse wrote essays and even worse essays with opinions when I knew nothing of his context as a poet, of his work as a literary editor or of his friendship with Robert Frost (some similarities between their verse hovers on the edge of my consciousness) (view spoiler)[and how easy it is to forget what span of time Frost's life encompassed, from the first wor...
My absolute favourite poet; Hollis' selection certainly did not disappoint! A great many of my favourites featured, as well as many I had never read before. The selection showcased Thomas' nature poetry in an accessible manner, which I greatly appreciated. I also enjoyed the diary entries from Thomas' brief time in the war, as well as the extensive notes on individual poems. My favourite has to be "Rain", a deeply melancholic look on the emotional effects of World War One on the soldiers-in-trai...
I picked up the book knowing nothing about Thomas and by the ends I was in love with his words. I'll never be able to look at violets nor snow nor rain the same again. Not to mention the heartbreak of reading his journal entries from his time fighting in the war. With his simple language Thomas breaks through to the core of what he wants to say, rather than dancing around the bush while throwing about a bunch of complicated, fancy words. If you are unsure, look up and read at least these poems:
I throughly enjoyed this collection of poetry. There definitely were a few that stood out more to me: The Owl, Interval, Like the Touch of Rain, Rain, The Thrush, What will they do? and Beauty. I definitely recommed this collection of poetry to anyone who enjoys poetry or has a love of it.
Review - I read this when I was in high school as part of a module on War Literature, but what really brought it home to me was a trip to northern France and Belgium on a tour of war sites i.e. Menin Gate, Thiepval, etc. There is no better way to get a sense of the barbarity, loss and incredible strength in the First World War than by reading these poems in one of the places where men sacrificed themselves or are buried underfoot.General Subject/s? - World War One / Poetry / War Poetry / Literat...
http://www.therapythroughtolstoy.com/...Thomas's poetry so beautifully encapsulates what England means to him, but also questions deeper concerns of belonging and nationality. Thomas felt torn between London, where his work and writing circles were based, and the English countryside that he commemorates in his writing. Yet Thomas's Welsh heritage led him to doubt whether he could truly be "English". He felt that living in Englandwas “like a homesickness, but stronger”, and the closest he could f...
Hollis writes in the introduction that “Edward Thomas was a poet of strong gentleness, long in quick thinking. His poems rarely resolve; they avoid convenience, mistrust rhetoric and ostentation, and have the effect of lingering on the senses as a scent does or a thought on its way towards completion. He chose the phrase rather than the foot as his unit of composition, and would frequently break his rhythm inventively across his line-endings in ways that conjured the effect of a perpetually form...
Different edition, I think, but still some beautiful language. Steeped in landscape.
I found this a fascinating collection and insight into the genesis, craft, development and the mind of an author. Thomas seemingly began as a literary reviewer and critic, progressing to write books on commission and then prose and eventually verse (often revisiting works of prose to form the basis of verse). Indeed it took Thomas until he was 36 until he wrote his first poem in 1914 – ‘Up in The Wind’. Thomas suffered from, was diagnosed with and treated for depression and indeed did make prepa...
It’s really hard to frame in a goodreads review the picture I’m building in my mind the more WW1 poetry/biographies of said poets I read. The jarring (in a constructive way) thing about this collection is that the majority of it is his 17 year old writings in the countryside, up to his fully-formed adult poetry. (The fact that he didn’t write poetry and didn’t consider himself a poet till so late in life will never cease to surprise me given how good he is.) And, after a full 150 pages of pastor...
Have enjoyed this volume of poems from one of the "war poets"- although none of his poems were ever written from the trenches. He died in France in 1917 after just 3 months at the Front. His poems are filled with lots of countryside imagery and wonderful observations of nature and country people. Thomas is a perceptive writer and he produces evocative pictures, albeit generally with an undercurrent of melancholy (he struggled with depression). Adelstrop remains my favourite:"Yes. I remember Adel...
Rating: 3.5 stars
