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Poetry
Chapters (138)
- The Trumpet 0:00
- The Sign-Post 0:46
- Tears 2:38
- Two Pewits 3:51
- The Manor Farm 4:38
- The Owl 6:17
- Swedes 7:22
- Will You Come? 8:14
- As the Team’s Head-Brass 9:05
- Thaw 11:12
- Interval 11:32
- Like the Touch of Rain 12:25
- The Path 13:02
- The Combe 14:27
- If I Should Ever by Chance 15:20
- What Shall I Give? 16:08
- If I Were to Own 17:20
- And You, Helen 19:14
- When First 20:22
- Head and Bottle 21:35
- After You Speak 22:12
- Sowing 22:50
- When We Two Walked 23:27
- In Memoriam (Easter, 1915) 23:57
- Fifty Faggots 24:18
- Women He Liked 25:18
- Early One Morning 26:21
- The Cherry Trees 27:21
- It Rains 27:39
- The Huckster 28:37
- A Gentleman 29:06
- The Bridge 30:15
- Lob 31:09
- Bright Clouds 40:29
- The Clouds That Are So Light 41:02
- Some Eyes Condemn 41:46
- May 23 42:50
- The Glory 45:20
- Melancholy 47:12
- Adlestrop 48:15
- The Green Roads 49:05
- The Mill-Pond 50:18
- It Was Upon 51:14
- Tall Nettles 52:08
- Haymaking 52:38
- How at Once 55:23
- Gone, Gone Again 55:54
- The Sun Used to Shine 57:11
- October 58:45
- The Long Small Room 1:00:00
- Liberty 1:01:00
- November 1:02:48
- The Sheiling 1:04:54
- The Gallows 1:05:42
- Birds’ Nests 1:07:11
- Rain 1:08:11
- “Home” 1:09:26
- There’s Nothing Like the Sun 1:11:39
- When He Should Laugh 1:13:03
- An Old Song 1:13:21
- The Penny Whistle 1:15:07
- Lights Out 1:16:07
- Cock-Crow 1:17:11
- Words 1:17:48
- Words 1:19:26
- I Never Saw That Land Before 1:26:08
- The Dark Forest 1:27:19
- Celandine 1:27:57
- The Ash Grove 1:29:29
- Old Man 1:30:49
- The Thrush 1:33:43
- I Built Myself a House of Glass 1:34:54
- February Afternoon 1:35:30
- Digging 1:36:29
- Two Houses 1:37:02
- The Mill-Water 1:38:12
- A Dream 1:39:26
- Sedge-Warblers 1:40:17
- Under the Woods 1:42:14
- What Will They Do? 1:43:01
- To-Night 1:43:49
- A Cat 1:44:21
- The Unknown 1:45:00
- Song 1:45:55
- She Dotes 1:46:21
- For These 1:47:17
- March the Third 1:48:21
- The New House 1:49:26
- March 1:50:08
- The Cuckoo 1:52:23
- Over the Hills 1:53:18
- Home 1:54:33
- The Hollow Wood 1:55:42
- Wind and Mist 1:56:27
- The Unknown Bird 2:01:18
- The Lofty Sky 2:03:34
- After Rain 2:05:00
- Digging 2:06:14
- But These Things Also 2:06:58
- April 2:07:42
- The Barn 2:09:24
- The Barn and the Down 2:10:44
- The Child on the Cliffs 2:11:40
- Good Night 2:13:05
- The Wasp Trap 2:14:17
- July 2:14:52
- A Tale 2:15:43
- Parting 2:16:06
- Lovers 2:17:25
- That Girl’s Clear Eyes 2:18:03
- The Child in the Orchard 2:19:05
- The Source 2:20:31
- The Mountain Chapel 2:21:16
- First Known When Lost 2:23:19
- The Word 2:24:06
- These Things That Poets Said 2:25:37
- Home 2:26:17
- Aspens 2:27:27
- An Old Song 2:29:00
- There Was a Time 2:30:56
- Ambition 2:32:02
- No One Cares Less Than I 2:33:44
- Roads 2:34:14
- This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong 2:36:26
- The Chalk-Pit 2:38:06
- Health 2:42:11
- Beauty 2:44:52
- Snow 2:46:10
- The New Year 2:46:43
- The Brook 2:48:03
- The Other 2:49:55
- House and Man 2:55:47
- The Gypsy 2:57:11
- Man and Dog 2:59:18
- A Private 3:02:24
- Out in the Dark 3:02:59
- The Lane 3:03:50
- The Watchers 3:04:52
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Edward Thomas was a literary critic, biographer, and travel and nature writer for decades before he turned his hand to poetry at the age of thirty-six, at the suggestion of his close friend Robert Frost.
World War I broke out shortly after this decision, and in 1915 Thomas enlisted. His first book of poetry, Six Poems, was published in 1916. In 1917, as his next collection, Poems, was being prepared for print, he was killed in action in France. What remained of his poetry was published posthumously, his career as a poet cut short after just three years.
Though his contemporaries knew him best for his literary criticism and prose, his modern reputation rests squarely on his poetry. Even though he wrote many of them during the war, only a few are overt war poems, with Thomas largely preferring to write about the English countryside. Despite his short few years of poetic output, Thomas was highly influential, with his personal voice and exploration of solitude and alienation foreshadowing the modernist movement that would emerge after the end of the war.