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Poesía completa
La poesía de Edward Thomas (Londres, 1878-Arras, 1917) es un milagro tardío. En el momento en que comenzó a escribir poemas, Thomas contaba treinta y seis años de edad, tenía ante sí apenas tres de vida y era ya autor de más de una veintena de libros de prosa. Su amistad con W. H. Davies y Robert Frost lo impulsaría a escribir sus primeros versos, y en apenas dos años y medio Thomas completó una obra poética que no ha dejado de ganar admiradores –entre ellos, poetas como Auden, Larkin, Brodsky, Heaney o Walcott– desde que su autor murió en la Gran Guerra.
En general, Thomas es una referencia para aquellos poetas que han escrito al margen del experimento y la vanguardia más declarados y han buscado una línea de continuidad con la tradición que va de Wordsworth a Hardy, pero al mismo tiempo han intentado esquivar la reiteración georgiana y no se han cerrado por completo a las novedades procedentes del otro lado del Estrecho, o del otro lado del Atlántico. La poesía de Thomas es universal y al mismo tiempo supone para el poeta inglés una determinada idea de Inglaterra y de la tradición inglesa. A estas alturas, un clásico.
En general, Thomas es una referencia para aquellos poetas que han escrito al margen del experimento y la vanguardia más declarados y han buscado una línea de continuidad con la tradición que va de Wordsworth a Hardy, pero al mismo tiempo han intentado esquivar la reiteración georgiana y no se han cerrado por completo a las novedades procedentes del otro lado del Estrecho, o del otro lado del Atlántico. La poesía de Thomas es universal y al mismo tiempo supone para el poeta inglés una determinada idea de Inglaterra y de la tradición inglesa. A estas alturas, un clásico.
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372 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2012
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About the author
Edward Thomas
393 books77 followersLibrarian 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.
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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December 10, 2017
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.
September 25, 2017
Not as moving as I had hoped
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