Collected Poems Of Edward Thomas Av Edward Thomas

<p>When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished. But in the years since his death, his work has come to be cherished for its rare, sustained vision of the natural world and as ''a mirror...

Fired by his abiding love of the English landscape, the poetry of Edward Thomas is some of the most astonishing of the twentieth century. By 1917, when he was killed on the Western Front, he had earned his place as one of England's most valued poets....

<p>This remarkable anthology is meant, in the words of its editor, for all those ''who like a book that can always lighten some of their burdens or give wings to their delight, whether in the open air by day, or under the roof at evening;...

This edition is the sequel to Collected Poems 1945-1990 (Dent, 1993; Phoenix Press, 1995) reprinting in full the contents of R.S. Thomas's last five collections, The Echoes Return Slow (1988), Counterpoint (1990), Mass for Hard Times (1992), No Truce...