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Volume II is primarily concerned with Thomas's response to the countryside. A comprehensive introduction provides biographical details, an account of the circumstances of composition, and historical contextualisation of the volume's themes. Thomas's intricate prose is elucidated by a headnote at the start of each work and extensive annotation.
List of contents
- Introduction
- The Woodland Life (1897)
- Horae Solitariae (1902)
- Oxford (1903)
- Beautiful Wales (1905)
- The Heart of England (1906)
- The Book of the Open Air (1907-8)
- The South Country (1909)
- Rest and Unrest (1910)
- Rose Acre Papers (1910)
- The Isle of Wight (1911)
- Light and Twilight (1911)
- Introduction to Isaac Taylor's Words and Places (1911)
- Introduction to Rural Rides (1912)
- The Country (1913)
- Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds (1915)
- Cloud Castle (1922)
- The Last Sheaf (1928)
- Other Essays: 'Reading Out of Doors' (1903), 'Penderyn' (1914), 'Soldiers Everywhere' (1915)
- Chronology
- Bibliography
About the author
Guy Cuthbertson is a lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London. Previously, he was a teaching fellow at the University of St Andrews, a college lecturer at Oxford University, and a lecturer at Swansea University. He was an undergraduate at St Andrews and then a graduate student at Oxford, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on Edward Thomas. He has published widely on Thomas, edits the Edward Thomas Fellowship's journal, and edited, with Lucy Newlyn, Branch-Lines: Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry (London: Enitharmon, 2007). He is also writing a biography of Wilfred Owen for Yale University Press.
Lucy Newlyn is Professor of English at Oxford University, and a Fellow and Tutor at St Edmund Hall. She has published widely on English Romantic literature, including three books with Oxford University Press, and The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge. Her book Reading, Writing, and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception (OUP, 2000) won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize in 2001. She has published articles on Edward Thomas, and her edition of his xford was published by Signal in 2005. Her first collection of poems, Ginnel, was published by Oxford Poets, Carcanet in 2005. She is currently writing a book about William and Dorothy Wordsworth's creative collaboration for Oxford University Press.
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Volume II is primarily concerned with Thomas's response to the countryside. A comprehensive introduction provides biographical details, an account of the circumstances of composition, and historical contextualisation of the volume's themes. Thomas's intricate prose is elucidated by a headnote at the start of each work and extensive annotation.
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an elegant volume
