Edward Thomas Biography
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Edward Thomas was
born in 1878 in the city of London. He was the son of a civil servant. He had
his education at St. Paul’s School and the Lincoln College, Oxford.
During the First
World War, Edward Thomas served in the British army. He was killed in action in
Flanders in 1917.
Edward Thomas was
essentially a literary man. He wrote both prose and poetical works. In some of
his poems, he was found to use a penname Edward Eastaway.
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His chief literary
activities were in prose. His career, as a poet, was, in fact, very brief, just
for 4 years. He was, however, a poet of nature and meditation. His volume of
poems—Poems (1917) and Last Poems (1918) were published posthumously and contain
some of his well known poems such as ‘A Tale’, ‘The Hollow Wood’, ‘Light Out’,
‘The Gypsy’ and so on.
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