author
Edward Thomas
1878–1917
Drawn to country paths, quiet stations, and the feeling of a landscape just before it changes, this English writer became one of the most beloved poetic voices of the First World War. He came to poetry late, but in only a few years he created work remembered for its plain music, deep feeling, and vivid sense of place.
11 Audiobooks
George Borrow: The Man and His Books
by Edward Thomas
The South Country
by Edward Thomas
The Heart of England
by Edward Thomas
Windsor Castle
by Edward Thomas
The Happy-go-lucky Morgans
by Edward Thomas
Poems
by Edward Thomas
Oxford
by Edward Thomas
In Pursuit of Spring
by Edward Thomas
The Icknield Way
by Edward Thomas
Last Poems
by Edward Thomas
Beautiful Wales
by Edward Thomas
About the author
Philip Edward Thomas was born in London on March 3, 1878, and built his reputation first as a prose writer, reviewer, and literary biographer. Before turning seriously to verse, he wrote widely about books, nature, and the countryside, developing the close, attentive style that later shaped his poems.
Thomas is often linked with the war poets, though his work usually looks less at battle than at memory, uncertainty, and the natural world. His friendship with Robert Frost is often noted as an important encouragement in his move into poetry, and many readers now know him best through poems such as Adlestrop, with their quiet observation and emotional depth.
He enlisted during the First World War and was killed in France at the Battle of Arras on April 9, 1917. Much of his poetry was written in the last years of his life and published after his death, which has only added to the sense of a remarkable voice discovered just as it was being lost.