Poesía completa

by Edward Thomas

Cuando su amiga Eleanor Farjeon le preguntó al recién alistado Edward Thomas por qué luchaba, se agachó y, agarrando un puñado de tierra, dijo severamente: «literalmente, por esto». Escrito en sólo dos años, previos a su muerte en combate, la obra poética de quien fue el mejor amigo de Robert Frost se erige hoy como un singular testimonio de una época y de un paisaje que, tras la Gran Guerra, nunca regresarían. La Poesía Completa de Thomas es una experiencia fascinante y misteriosa, obra de quien Philip Larkin definió como «el padre de todos nosotros».

Genres: Poetry

424 pages, Unknown Binding

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