Tuesday, July 22, 2008

News at Eleven: The poetry makes the preoccupations of the prose

more lucid by showing just how enigmatic they really are. After reading [Edward] Thomas again in [Edna] Longley's always informative and often intriguing edition, he seems subtler and more cunning as a poet and his often evocative, descriptive prose seems full of potential, poetry waiting to happen. In his poetry, Thomas finally realised what he could do.

July by Edward Thomas (c1905)

from The Guardian: From Adlestrop to Arras--a poet's life

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