ISBN: 9780393089073

Winner of the Costa Biography Award, a fascinating exploration of one of the twentieth centuryâ??s most influential poets. Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of … More...

Winner of the Costa Biography Award, a fascinating exploration of one of the twentieth centuryâ??s most influential poets. Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of the war poets. This haunting account of his final five years follows him from his beloved English countryside to the battlefield in France where he lost his life. When he met the American poet Robert Frost in 1913, Thomas was tormented by feelings of failure in his work and in his marriage. With Frostâ??s encouragement he began writing poem after poem as he finally found the expression for which he had spent his life searching. But the First World War put an ocean between them: Frost returned to New England while Thomas enlisted and went to fight in France. It is these roads takenâ??and not takenâ??that are at the heart of this unforgettable book, which culminates in Thomasâ??s tragic death on Easter Monday, 1917. Now All Roads Lead to France encompasses an astonishingly creative moment in English literature, when London was a battleground for new, ambitious writing. A generation that included W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Rupert Brooke was â??making it new"â??vehemently and pugnaciouslyâ??and this dazzling biography places Thomas firmly in their midst. | Now All Roads Lead To France by Matthew Hollis Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Biography & Memoirs > Artists > Authors & Literary Biography P10101, Matthew Hollis<

ISBN: 9780393089073

Winner of the Costa Biography Award, a fascinating exploration of one of the twentieth century’s most influential poets. Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential… More...

Winner of the Costa Biography Award, a fascinating exploration of one of the twentieth century’s most influential poets. Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of the war poets. This haunting account of his final five years follows him from his beloved English countryside to the battlefield in France where he lost his life. When he met the American poet Robert Frost in 1913, Thomas was tormented by feelings of failure in his work and in his marriage. With Frost’s encouragement he began writing poem after poem as he finally found the expression for which he had spent his life searching. But the First World War put an ocean between them: Frost returned to New England while Thomas enlisted and went to fight in France. It is these roads taken—and not taken—that are at the heart of this unforgettable book, which culminates in Thomas’s tragic death on Easter Monday, 1917.Now All Roads Lead to France encompasses an astonishingly creative moment in English literature, when London was a battleground for new, ambitious writing. A generation that included W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Rupert Brooke was “making it new”—vehemently and pugnaciously—and this dazzling biography places Thomas firmly in their midst. Trade Books>Hardcover>Poetry>Poetry>Poetry, Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. Core >2<

2012, ISBN: 9780393089073

W W NORTON & CO, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: Illustrated, 388 Seiten, Publiziert: 2012-10-22T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 10 illustrations, 1.55 kg, Verkaufsrang: 5391,… More...

W W NORTON & CO, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: Illustrated, 388 Seiten, Publiziert: 2012-10-22T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 10 illustrations, 1.55 kg, Verkaufsrang: 5391, Europäische Lyrik, Regionen & Kulturkreise, Lyrik, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, Bücher, Autoren, Kunst & Literatur, Biografien & Erinnerungen, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Politik & Geschichte, Format: Illustriert, W W NORTON & CO, 2012<

ISBN: 9780393089073

Hardback, [PU: WW Norton & Co], Winner of the Costa Biography Award, a fascinating exploration of one of the twentieth century’s most influential poets., Biography: Literary