Book description
When Edward Thomas died at Arras in 1917 few people thought of him as
a poet. Yet in the two years before his death, after a lifetime
writing prose, Thomas wrote some of the most enduring poems of his
day: poems of war, nature, friendship, despair and exultation. Andrew
Motion's pioneering study of Thomas' life and achievement is scholarly
yet utterly absorbing, combining an account of his struggles as a
writer with perceptive readings of individual poems.
Andrew Motion's books include a biography, The Lamberts, George,
Constant and Kil, and several prize-winning collections of poetry, the
most recent of which is Love in a Life. He is currently writing the
authorized biography of Philip Larkin.
