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Also known as Edward Eastaway, Philip Edward Thomas

British poet and journalist (1878–1917)

Person · Open Library

Born
1878
Died
1917
Works
149

Top works

  • Chosen essays
  • The life of the Duke of Marlborough
  • Rose acre papers
  • The Icknield way
  • Selected Poems and Prose

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Norway
Active from
1980-07-04
composerepicepic musicorchestralsoundtracktrailer

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
166
Total plays
759

Philip Edward Thomas (3 March 1878 – 9 April 1917) was an Anglo-Welsh writer of prose and poetry. He is commonly considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences. Already an accomplished writer, Thomas turned to poetry only in 1914. He enlisted in the army in 1915, and was killed in action during the Battle of Arras in 1917, soon after he arrived in France. lots more : wikipedia <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Edward+Thomas">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • Yes. I remember Adlestrop –The name, because one afternoonOf heat the express-train drew up thereUnwontedly. It was late June.
  • The flowers left thick at nightfall in the woodThis Eastertide call into mind the men,Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, shouldHave gathered them and will do never again.
  • I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.
  • I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers—as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero.
  • To envy a man is to misunderstand him or yourself.
  • There is nothing at the end of any road better than may be found beside it.

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pseudonym
Edward Eastaway
Commons category
Edward Thomas (poet)
date of birth
1878-03-03
date of death
1917-04-09
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Works in European collections

14 objects attributed to Edward Thomas, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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