Books by Edward Thomas
“Thomas has become almost an antidote to Wilfred Owen-type poetry. For those who get fed up with trench poetry or Western Front poetry. Thomas’s poems are much more conversational, simple. They’re about the war years, rather than war itself. There are a few that are quite consciously war poems, but even then he is looking at the war from a different perspective.” Read more...
The best books on Poetry of the First World War
Guy Cuthbertson, Literary Scholar
“Edward Thomas, perhaps more than anyone, was alive to the incredible strangeness of England as an entity that had been inhabited for thousands of years by people who had left ample traces, and yet those traces are still lined with other forms of life that also supersede and go beyond those local Anglo-Saxons or Romans or Celts.” Read more...
The best books on Witches and Witchcraft
Diane Purkiss, Historian
Interviews where books by Edward Thomas were recommended
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Red Shift
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The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
by Neil Price -
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Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs
by Rane Willerslev -
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The Annotated Collected Poems
Edward Thomas (ed. by Edna Longley) -
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The Poems of Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë (ed. by Derek Roper)
The best books on Witches and Witchcraft, recommended by Diane Purkiss
The best books on Witches and Witchcraft, recommended by Diane Purkiss
For centuries, the witch has been an index not only of what we fear most in others, but also what we cannot cope with—the powerfully abnormal, strange and often irrational elements—in ourselves. And the best way to understand the history of witches and witchcraft is to first understand the supernatural, according to Diane Purkiss, Professor at Keble College, Oxford and author of the lauded book The Witch in History.
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Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology
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From the Line: Scottish War Poetry 1914-1945
ed. David Goldie and Roderick Watson -
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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
ed. George Walter -
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The War Poems of Wilfred Owen
by Wilfred Owen, ed. John Stallworthy -
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The Annotated Collected Poems
by Edward Thomas, ed. Edna Longley
The best books on Poetry of the First World War, recommended by Guy Cuthbertson
The best books on Poetry of the First World War, recommended by Guy Cuthbertson
Poetry written during the First World War has remained prominent in the public consciousness for more than a century; writers like Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Robert Graves are still commonly studied in British schools and universities. Here, Guy Cuthbertson—literary scholar and author of an acclaimed biography of Owen—selects five books to give an overview of the poetry produced during the Great War.
