Edward Thomas ranks as one of the foremost poets of the twentieth century, both in his own poetry and in his influence on subsequent poets. 'He is the father of us all,’ asserted Ted Hughes. This book combines the story of his life until his death at the Battle of Arras in 1917 with numerous illustrations, including photographs, printed material and original letters, many of which have never been published before. The book will add to what is already known of Thomas and his family before and after his death by putting his biography into a visual and historical context.
... a very able man in these matters ' ; Major Thomas Venner ; Michael Mallet ; Philip Carteret ; Francis Cradock , a merchant ( later an admirer of Milton's verse ) ; Sir Henry Ford ( later Irish Secretary ) ; Edward Bagshaw ; Thomas ...
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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1836-1854
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table talk
Unpublished Letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to the Rev. John Prior Estlin
I am buried in an abyss of Sensuality , I have renounced hazard however , but I am given to Harlots , and live in a state of Concubinage , I am at this moment under a course of restoration by Pearson's prescription , for a debility ...
142 . 4 Letters , II . 128 . 5 Letters , II . 204 . 6 White , The Unextinguished Hearth , pp . 145-6 . 7. White , The Unextinguished Hearth , p . 149 . 8 Clark , Prose , p . 267 . 9 Blake , The Everlasting Gospel . 10 P.W. , p . 156 .
Avec Rupert Brooke, l’ange foudroyé, Christian Soleil fait revivre non seulement un des plus grands poètes de son époque mais aussi le monde disparu de l’Angleterre d’avant la Premiere Guerre mondiale.
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