Selected Poems and Prose
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Overview
Beloved writer Edward Thomas is best known for his evocative poetry, though his writing career was varied and prolific, with more than two thousand reviews and nearly thirty volumes of topography, biography, and literary criticism published by the time of his death at age thirty-nine in World War I. After years of writing about poetry, Thomas, an intensely contemplative man who believed deeply in the power of perambulation, was encouraged by his close friend Robert Frost to write his own verse. This stunning collection includes some of his most treasured work and, with a beautiful introduction by bestselling author Robert Macfarlane, will bring Thomas’s extraordinary writings to a new generation of readers and aspiring writers.
For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141393193 |
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| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Publication date: | 08/27/2013 |
| Pages: | 304 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.60(w) x 5.00(h) x 0.90(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
David Wright (1920–1994) was an acclaimed South African–born poet, translator, memoirist, biographer, and editor.
Robert Macfarlane is the author of several award-winning books, including Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, and The Old Ways. He lives in Cambridge, England.
Table of Contents
Foreword xi
Acknowledgements and Note on the Selection xxxi
Selected Prose and Poems
Prose
From 'A Diary in English Fields and Woods' 5
To Gordon Bottomley. From Bearsted. March 17th, 1904 17
From Beautiful Wales
A Farmhouse under a Mountain 19
Llewelyn, the Bard 24
April 25
To Gordon Bottomley. From The Weald. July 26th, 1905 26
From The Heart of England
Leaving Town 27
Apple Blossom 32
To Gordon Bottomley. From Minsmere. February 26th, 1908 32
From The South Country
?I Travel Armed Only with Myself' 33
Beeches 36
A Return to Nature 36
A Railway Carriage 42
The End of Summer 46
History and the Parish 50
An Umbrella Man 52
From ?At a Cottage Door' 58
Hawthornden 63
The Attempt 68
Insomnia 74
Chalk Pits 77
Saved Time 83
People Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn't Throw Stones 89
Rain 90
?All These Things Are Mine' 92
The First Cuckoo 93
From In Pursuit of Spring
The Chiffchaff 97
The Other Man 97
From Walter Pater
Pater and Style 99
How I Began 106
From The Childhood of Edward Thomas
Infancy 109
Holidays 114
A Third-Class Carriage 118
Tipperary 121
It's a Long, Long Way 133
This England 142
Poems
Up in the Wind 149
March 152
Old Man 153
The Sign-Post 154
The Other 155
After Rain 159
Birds' Nests 159
The Manor Farm 160
The Combe 161
The New Year 161
The Source 162
The Penny Whistle 162
A Private 163
Snow 163
Adlestrop 164
Tears 164
Over the Hills 165
The Cuckoo 166
Swedes 166
The Unknown Bird 167
The Mill-Pond 168
[Man and Dog] 169
Beauty 170
[The Gypsy] 171
[Ambition] 172
House and Man 172
Parting 173
First Known when Lost 174
May 23 175
The Barn 176
Home 177
The Owl 178
The Child on the Cliff 178
Good-Night 179
But These Things Also 180
The New House 180
Sowing 181
March the 3rd 182
The Path 182
[The Wasp Trap] 183
Wind and Mist 184
A Gentleman 186
Lob 186
Digging 191
Lovers 191
In Memoriam [Easter, 1915] 192
Head and Bottle 192
Home 192
[Health] 193
[She Dotes] 195
Song 195
Melancholy 196
To-Night 196
The Glory 197
July 197
The Chalk Pit 198
Fifty Faggots 200
Sedge-Warblers 200
[I Built Myself a House of Glass] 201
Words 201
The Word 203
Under the Wood 204
Haymaking 205
The Brook 206
Aspens 207
The Mill-Water 208
For These [Prayer] 209
Digging 210
Two Houses 210
Cock-Crow 211
October 211
There's Nothing Like the Sun 212
The Thrush 213
Liberty 214
[This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong] 215
Rain 215
The Clouds that are so Light 216
Roads 217
The Ash Grove 219
February Afternoon [Sonnet 2] 220
P.H.T. 220
[These Things that Poets Said] 221
No One So Much As You 221
The Unknown 223
Celandine 224
'Home' 225
Thaw 226
Household Poems [1 Bronwen] 226
[2 Morfyn] 227
[3 Myfanwy] 228
[4 Helen] 228
[The Wind's Song] [Sonnet 3] 229
Go Now 229
Tall Nettles 230
[The Watchers] 230
[I Never Saw That Land Before] 231
It Rains 232
The Sun Used to Shine 232
[Bugle Call] 233
As the Team's Head-Brass 234
After You Speak 235
[Song 3] 236
[Sonnet 5] 236
Bob's Lane 237
[There Was a Time] 238
The Green Roads 238
When First 239
The Gallows 240
[The Dark Forest] 241
When He Should Laugh 241
The Swifts 242
Blenheim Oranges 242
[That Girl's Clear Eyes] [Sonnet 6] 243
[What Will They Do?] 244
The Trumpet 244
Lights Out 245
The Long Small Room 246
The Sheiling 247
The Lane 247
[Out in the Dark] 248
From Diary, 1 January-8 April 1917 249
Notes 259
What People are Saying About This
"With Wright's succinct notes, this might be considered the most fully representative edition of Thomas's work."
—John Greening, Times Literary Supplement