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The Green Roads - Selected Poems (Centenary Edition)
The Green Roads Selected Poems - Centenary Edition Author:Edward Thomas "By far the best collection of Edward Thomas poetry." — This is a centenary edition of Selected Poems from Edward Thomas. — Edward Thomas (1878-1917) was an English poet, journalist and essayist. Already an accomplished writer, Thomas turned to poetry only in 1914. In 1915, he enlisted in the British Army to ?ght in the First World War and was kil... more »led in action during the Battle of Arras in 1917, soon after he arrived in France.
?He [Edward Thomas] had a passion for English country and a passion for English literature; and he had stored enough knowledge of the lives of his heroes to make it natural for him to think of them when walking through their country and to speculate whether the influence of it could be traced in their writing.? ? Virginia Woolf« less