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- 2011505697 abstract "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's fatal decision to fight in the war. The 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's tragic death on Easter Monday 1917.".
- 2011505697 contributor B12370335.
- 2011505697 created "2011.".
- 2011505697 date "2011".
- 2011505697 date "2011.".
- 2011505697 dateCopyrighted "2011.".
- 2011505697 description "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's fatal decision to fight in the war. The 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's tragic death on Easter Monday 1917.".
- 2011505697 extent "389 p. :".
- 2011505697 identifier "0571245986 (hbk)".
- 2011505697 identifier "0571276083 (ebook)".
- 2011505697 identifier "9780571245987 (hbk)".
- 2011505697 identifier "9780571276080 (ebook)".
- 2011505697 issued "2011".
- 2011505697 issued "2011.".
- 2011505697 language "eng".
- 2011505697 publisher "London : Faber and Faber,".
- 2011505697 subject "821.912 23".
- 2011505697 subject "Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.".
- 2011505697 subject "PR6039.H55 Z736 2011".
- 2011505697 subject "Poets, English 20th century Biography.".
- 2011505697 subject "Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917.".
- 2011505697 title "Now all roads lead to France : the last years of Edward Thomas / Matthew Hollis.".
- 2011505697 type "text".