Edward Thomas

The Origins of His Poetry

Judy Kendall

Edward Thomas

Judy Kendall

Distributed for University of Wales Press

239 pages | 3 halftones | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2012
University of Wales Press - Writing Wales in English
Paper $40.00 ISBN: 9780708324035 Published April 2012 For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only
E-book $40.00 ISBN: 9780708324523 Will Publish October 2019 For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only

Edward Thomas: The Origins of his Poetry is a critical study of the early twentieth century English poet Edward Thomas (1878–1917), who is known for the poems he wrote during World War I. Judy Kendall offers close readings of Thomas’s poems, prose, and letters, all the while illuminating his close relationship to nature; connections between his approach to composition and the writing of Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, and William James; and the influence of Japanese aesthetics on his works. Kendall’s study also presents surprising and insightful ideas about poetic composition in general.

Contents
General Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text and Abbreviations
Introduction: Studying the Composing Process

1. Starting Points—How Poems Emerge
2. Poetry and Oral Literature
3. Ellipses and Aporia
4. Gaps
5. Unfinishedness . . .
6. Temporal Dislocation
7. Dislocating Thought
8. Divagations

Appendices
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Review Quotes
Simon Dentith, University of Reading

“This book provides a striking and original account of Edward Thomas’s composition process, which is widened to become a meditation on the act of composition itself. It situates Thomas in a network of intellectual affiliations that help to transform our understanding of him as a strikingly innovative poet, contemporary with other more obviously Modernist poets; and it is written throughout in an accessible, evenly paced way that leads the reader to some nevertheless surprising and complex conclusions.”

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