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Adlestrop: Poèmes d'un temps de guerre
Edward Thomas (1878-1917) n'a pas le profil typique des war poets britanniques qui partent pour le front à la sortie de l’adolescence ou de l’université. Souvent oublié au panthéon des poètes-combattants parce qu'il n'a pas écrit sur l'expérience des tranchées, il compose pourtant, de 1914 à 1917, une centaine de poèmes où la guerre est toujours latente, soit comme réalité lointaine ou grondant comme une rumeur, soit parfois aussi qu'elle éclate brutalement au sein d'un paysage ; le conflit et la peur affleurent sans cesse dans ces poèmes imprégnés de l'obsession des choses sans lendemain.
Plus d’un siècle après sa mort, ses «paroles tout incrustées de pluie» résonnent plus que jamais de leur grâce si particulière, regrettant le bonheur passé et célébrant la nature présente alors même qu’elles évoquent le grand boule-versement de la Première Guerre mondiale et la douleur d’être au monde.
Poète à la voix ténue mais tenace, encore très admiré au Royaume-Uni («notre père à tous», selon Ted Hughes), Edward Thomas est ici traduit pour la première fois en France.
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Plus d’un siècle après sa mort, ses «paroles tout incrustées de pluie» résonnent plus que jamais de leur grâce si particulière, regrettant le bonheur passé et célébrant la nature présente alors même qu’elles évoquent le grand boule-versement de la Première Guerre mondiale et la douleur d’être au monde.
Poète à la voix ténue mais tenace, encore très admiré au Royaume-Uni («notre père à tous», selon Ted Hughes), Edward Thomas est ici traduit pour la première fois en France.
Édition bilingue
- GenresPoetry
56 pages, Paperback
Published December 15, 2022
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About the author
Edward Thomas
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Philip Edward Thomas was an Anglo-Welsh writer of prose and poetry. He is commonly considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences. Already an accomplished writer, Thomas turned to poetry only in 1914. He enlisted in the army in 1915, and was killed in action during the Battle of Arras in 1917, soon after he arrived in France.
His Works:
Poetry collections:
Six Poems, under pseudonym Edward Eastaway, Pear Tree Press, 1916.
Poems, Holt, 1917.
Last Poems, Selwyn & Blount, 1918.
Collected Poems, Selwyn & Blount, 1920.
Two Poems, Ingpen & Grant, 1927.
The Poems of Edward Thomas, R. George Thomas (ed), Oxford University Press, 1978
Poemoj (Esperanto translation), Kris Long (ed & pub), Burleigh Print, Bracknell, Berks, 1979.
Edward Thomas: A Mirror of England, Elaine Wilson (ed), Paul & Co., 1985.
The Poems of Edward Thomas, Peter Sacks (ed), Handsel Books, 2003.
The Annotated Collected Poems, Edna Longley (ed), Bloodaxe Books, 2008.
Fiction:
The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans (novel), 1913
Essay collections:
Horae Solitariae, Dutton, 1902.
Oxford, A & C Black, 1903.
Beautiful Wales, Black, 1905.
The Heart of England, Dutton, 1906.
The South Country, Dutton, 1906 (reissued by Tuttle, 1993).
Rest and Unrest, Dutton, 1910.
Light and Twilight, Duckworth, 1911.
The Last Sheaf, Cape, 1928.
Philip Edward Thomas was an Anglo-Welsh writer of prose and poetry. He is commonly considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences. Already an accomplished writer, Thomas turned to poetry only in 1914. He enlisted in the army in 1915, and was killed in action during the Battle of Arras in 1917, soon after he arrived in France.
His Works:
Poetry collections:
Six Poems, under pseudonym Edward Eastaway, Pear Tree Press, 1916.
Poems, Holt, 1917.
Last Poems, Selwyn & Blount, 1918.
Collected Poems, Selwyn & Blount, 1920.
Two Poems, Ingpen & Grant, 1927.
The Poems of Edward Thomas, R. George Thomas (ed), Oxford University Press, 1978
Poemoj (Esperanto translation), Kris Long (ed & pub), Burleigh Print, Bracknell, Berks, 1979.
Edward Thomas: A Mirror of England, Elaine Wilson (ed), Paul & Co., 1985.
The Poems of Edward Thomas, Peter Sacks (ed), Handsel Books, 2003.
The Annotated Collected Poems, Edna Longley (ed), Bloodaxe Books, 2008.
Fiction:
The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans (novel), 1913
Essay collections:
Horae Solitariae, Dutton, 1902.
Oxford, A & C Black, 1903.
Beautiful Wales, Black, 1905.
The Heart of England, Dutton, 1906.
The South Country, Dutton, 1906 (reissued by Tuttle, 1993).
Rest and Unrest, Dutton, 1910.
Light and Twilight, Duckworth, 1911.
The Last Sheaf, Cape, 1928.
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May 6, 2024
“Adlestrop”, Edward Thomas
Sweet and eerie.
“Yes. I remember Adlestrop—
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop—only the name
And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.”
Sweet and eerie.
“Yes. I remember Adlestrop—
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop—only the name
And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.”
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