Edward Thomas
The Origins of His Poetry
Distributed for University of Wales Press
- Contents
- Review Quotes

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
“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.”
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature
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