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Under the Same Moon: Edward Thomas and the English Lyric
Edna Longley
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A hundred years ago Edward Thomas was killed in the Battle of Arras (April 1917). The reputation of his poetry has never been higher. Edna Longley has already edited Thomas's poems and prose. She now marks his centenary, and adds to the growing field of Thomas studies, with this close reading of his poetry. Longley places the lyric poem at the centre of Thomas's poetry and of his thinking about poetry. Drawing on Thomas's own remarkable critical writings, she argues that his importance to emergent 'modern poetry' has yet to be fully appreciated. Thomas, as a leading reviewer of poetry ... Read more
A hundred years ago Edward Thomas was killed in the Battle of Arras (April 1917). The reputation of his poetry has never been higher. Edna Longley has already edited Thomas's poems and prose. She now marks his centenary, and adds to the growing field of Thomas studies, with this close reading of his poetry. Longley places the lyric poem at the centre of Thomas's poetry and of his thinking about poetry. Drawing on Thomas's own remarkable critical writings, she argues that his importance to emergent 'modern poetry' has yet to be fully appreciated. Thomas, as a leading reviewer of poetry ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Enitharmon Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781911253143
SKU
V9781911253143
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About Edna Longley
Edna Longley is a Professor Emerita at Queen's University Belfast. She has written extensively on modern Irish and British poetry, and has edited Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2008). Her most recent monograph is Yeats and Modern Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
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