Edward Thomas

Edward Thomas was born in 1878 in London to Welsh parents. He earned a poor living writing commissioned books without respite, more than twenty volumes of prose and hundreds of reviews, at a pace that left him in despair. An American poet he met in London in 1913 encouraged him to write verse: he began in December 1914, at the age of thirty-six, and wrote about a hundred and forty poems in two years. He enlisted in July 1915, became an artillery officer and was killed near Arras on 9 April 1917, on the first day of the battle.

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• PoetryCollected PoemsEdward Thomas · 1920LiteraturePublic domain