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1 online resource |
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Acknowledgements; Edward Thomas: A Geographical Biography; Death Drive: Edward Thomas's Grave; Kotor: A Vertical Walk; Steep: A Dot-to-Dot Walk; The Manor Farm: A Walk Poem; The Chalk Pit: A Residual Walk; Fellowship: The Birthday Loops; Kettled: A March on Parliament; The Start: London to Guildford; Guildford to Dunbridge; From Dunbridge over Salisbury Plain; Three Wessex Poets; The Avon, Biss, and Frome; Trowbridge to Shepton Mallet; Shepton Mallet to Bridgwater; Bridgwater to the Sea; The Grave of Winter; Bibliography |
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Whilst out walking one day in the shade at the age of thirty-six, with the First World War looming, Edward Thomas decided to become a poet. In the few years that followed, believing he belonged nowhere, he tramped across rolling chalk downland, stitching himself to the landscape. Gently slanting from the door of his stone cottage, the South Downs - a range of chalk hills that extend across the southeastern coastal counties of England from Hampshire in the west to Sussex in the east - became day by day the mainspring of his poetry. As a perennial poet and essayist of the South Downs, Edward Tho |
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Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917 -- Homes and haunts -- England
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Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917 fast |
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Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography
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Biography: literary.
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Literary studies: poetry & poets.
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Human geography.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Homes
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Poets, English
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England
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Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781443873888 |
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1443873888 |
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