Edward Thomas

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Edward Thomas is written by Jacek Wiśniewski and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1443802468 (ISBN 10) and 9781443802468 (ISBN 13).

Edward Thomas volunteered when he was 37 years old and a father of three and was killed, as an artillery officer, during the first hour of the Arras offensive, on April 9th, 1917. In the two years before his death, he wrote the 144 poems which ensured a place for him among the poets of his generation. Though all his poems had been written OC under stormOCOs wingOCO, Thomas was not a war poet in the sense that Owen, Sassoon or Rosenberg were war poets. Before he turned to poetry in December 1914, he..."