Complete Poetical Works of Edward Thomas

by Edward Thomas

The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete poetical works of Edward Thomas, with beautiful illustrations, rare texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Thomas’ life and works
* Concise introduction to the life of Edward Thomas
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Even includes the poet’s autobiographical novella THE HAPPY-GO-LUCKY MORGANS
* Includes Thomas’ letters - spend hours exploring the poet's personal correspondence
* Features Thomas’ autobiographies, appearing here for the first time in digital print - discover Thomas’ literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

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CONTENTS:

The Poetry of Edward Thomas
BRIEF INTRODUCTION: EDWARD THOMAS

The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Novella
THE HAPPY-GO-LUCKY MORGANS

The Letters
THE LETTERS OF EDWARD THOMAS
INDEX OF LETTERS

The Autobiographies
HOW I BEGAN
THE CHILDHOOD OF EDWARD THOMAS

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Genres: Poetry

956 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

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.

Reviews

[Psalm · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love that the other review for this collection just says "Not as moving as I had hoped." Yeah, I don't know, I've always loved Thomas. Far from producing amoral war poems, Thomas sidesteps the conventional moral crisis of war and the paradox of living to die by setting down a higher kind of morality. Thomas's poems are skeptical of self-knowledge and elevate direct phenomenological experience as a credible informant on what it's like to be alive on earth, and to be human in a human society, and to be a soldier. And he wrote everything that he wrote in SUCH a short amount of time. He puts me to shame! AND this collection is under 2 dollars. 2 dollars! It's a glorified PDF, sure, that's true. But until a beautiful collected works of Edward Thomas is made available I'll take what I can get.

[Sean · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as moving as I had hoped