Edward Thomas: A Portrait

by R. George Thomas

Overview

Edward Thomas 1878-1917, published author, critic, and essayist, died at 39, a casualty of World War I. At the suggestion of his friend Robert Frost, Thomas began to write poetry and six months after his death his first book of poems was published. As the prose writer died, the poet was born, and it is on the poems that his reputation still rests. This new biography—based on some 1,800 of Thomas's letters—tells the story of his courtship, his restless marriage, and his tormented need to choose between happiness with his wife and children and the need to find his way as a writer alone. With delicacy and understanding the book describes Thomas's complex character and his pilgrimage on the road to self-discovery, and reveals how the emergence of Thomas the poet became inevitable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198185277
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/07/1985
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x 1.00(d)