Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems Edited by Edna Longley Bloodaxe £12, pp332 'For the last hundred years,' Edward Thomas wrote in 1913, 'ideas and the material of ideas have come to the ...

Edward Thomas’s poems feature often in this space. Though they were written in the First World War period (he was killed at Arras in 1917) they mostly reflect his deep and inspirational response to ...

A picnic on the old station bench at Adlestrop, Glos, where Edward Thomas’s poem is etched onto a plaque Credit: Photo: Christopher Jones SIR – I felt sad to learn from your article on Adlestrop that ...

In this full-scale biography of the Great War poet Edward Thomas, the first for a generation, Jean Moorcroft Wilson claims to “give the actual, very different, facts [of his life] for the first time”.

What we experience in Edward Thomas’ poem is not Wordsworth’s ’emotion recollected in tranquility,’ but tranquility recollected, presumably, in the pulverizing emotional mill of the war.

YES, I remember Adlestrop" is the first line of a poem written by Edward Thomas after a journey from Paddington to Ledbury in June, 1914. You will surely remember Adlestrop too after passing through ...

Yes, I remember Adlestrop – The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June. These are the opening lines of one of the most evocative poems about ...

The poet and essayist Edward Thomas’s well-loved poem was first published in the New Statesman in June 1917, shortly after his death at the Battle of Arras. By Edward Thomas Yes. I remember Adlestrop— ...

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