Collected Poems
A Poetry book. To-day I thinkOnly with scents, - scents dead leaves yield,And bracken, and wild carrot's seed,And the square mustard...
Though sometimes classified with Owen, Rosenberg and Sassoon as a 'war poet', he was rather a poet who died tragically in the war, and whose main subjects were the English countryside and its people, and the solitude of the observing self. The present edition offers the complete poems together with detailed editorial apparatus in what has become acknowledged as the standard edition by R. George Thomas. It also includes Thomas's remarkable prose War Diary of 1917.
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- Pages: 190 pages
- ISBN: 9780571113682 / 571113680
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To-day I thinkOnly with scents, - scents dead leaves yield,And bracken, and wild carrot's seed,And the square mustard field;Odours that riseWhen the spade wounds the root of tree,Rose, currant, raspberry, or goutweed,Rhubarb or celery;The smoke's smell, too,Flowing from where a bonfire burnsThe dead, the waste, the dangerous,And all to sweetness turns.It is enoughTo smell, to crumble the dark earth,While the robin sings over againSad songs of Autumn mirth."- A poem called DIGGING. Edward Thomas, Collected Poems // Tall NettlesTall nettles cover up, as they have doneThese many springs, the rusty harrow, the ploughLong worn out, and the roller made of stone :Only the elm butt tops the nettles now.This corner of the farmyard I like most:As well as any bloom upon a flowerI like the dust on the nettles, never lostExcept to prove the sweetness of a shower. Edward Thomas, Collected Poems //
Isn't it weird how you only read the three of four poems read out in the lecture, never the whole book when you're at college? Outside of 'Adlestrop' and 'And You Helen', plus the odd stupid comments in the margins about lesbians by Mr RP Manwaring, Thomas was never more than an amusing running joke from the early 90s, but actually... I liked these, despite his agnosticism. Pre WWI England described and felt. A hugely underrated and misunderstood poet. He was not "rather" a poet that died in the war as the description suggests, that historical tidbit has won him a reputation as a war poet for the wrong reasons. He was a war poet for his unflinching sense of death, apocalyptic foreboding, and the same patriotism that helped him decide to...
