Edward Thomas

Download or read book Edward Thomas written by Jacek Wiśniewski and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Thomas volunteered when he was 37 years old and a father of three and was killed, as an artillery officer, during the first hour of the Arras offensive, on April 9th, 1917. In the two years before his death, he wrote the 144 poems which ensured a place for him among the poets of his generation. Though all his poems had been written OC under stormOCOs wingOCO, Thomas was not a war poet in the sense that Owen, Sassoon or Rosenberg were war poets. Before he turned to poetry in December 1914, he..."