This is by any standards a wonderful biography. Edward Thomas was a troubled soul. Writer, critic, friend of Robert Frost who urged him to write poetry and what a treasure he has left us. This so unwarlike man volunteered for service in the British army in WWI, was commissioned and was killed in that slaughter of a generation. In this book he is brought to vivid life as is the life of a vanished era. The closing pages tear at the heart.
(David Graham - bwl 64 Spring 2012 ) |
