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Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas (eBook)
Short Description for Now All Roads Lead to FranceEdward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. This is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas' fatal decision to fight in the war. It evokes an astonishingly creative moment in English literature.
Full description- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Published: 04 August 2011
- Format: eBook 389 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Literary | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
- ISBN 13: 9780571276080 ISBN 10: 0571276083
- Sales rank: 939,465
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Full description for Now All Roads Lead to France
Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. "Now All Roads Lead to France" is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas' fatal decision to fight in the war. This book also evokes an astonishingly creative moment in English literature, when London was a battleground for new, ambitious kinds of writing. A generation that included W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost and Rupert Brooke were 'making it new' - vehemently and pugnaciously. These larger-than-life characters surround a central figure, tormented by his work and his marriage. But as his friendship with Frost blossomed, Thomas wrote poem after poem, and his emotional affliction began to lift. In 1914 the two friends formed the ideas that would produce some of the most remarkable verse of the twentieth century. But the War put an ocean between them: Frost returned to the safety of New England while Thomas stayed to fight for the Old. It is these roads taken - and those not taken - that are at the heart of this remarkable book, which culminates in Thomas' tragic death on Easter Monday 1917.
