Review:
Edward Thomas and Wales
edited by Jeff Towns
From Planet 234

Planet 231

Nicholas Murray reviews
Edward Thomas and Wales
edited by Jeff Towns

Brood

Parthian, £9.99

Born in south London but to Welsh-speaking parents, Edward Thomas’s Welshness has often been occluded by his image as celebrant of the English countryside, his most famous poem a hymn to the tranquil stasis of the English Cotswolds in high summer on the eve of the outbreak of the First World War.

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About the author

Nicholas Murray is a poet and literary biographer living in Powys. His The Red Sweet Wine of Youth: British Poets of the First World War appeared in 2011.