Edward Thomas: A Portrait

Edward Thomas 1878-1917, published author, critic, and essayist, died at 39, a casualty of World War I. At the suggestion of his friend Robert Frost, Thomas began to write poetry and six months after his death his first book of poems was published. As the prose writer died, the poet was born, and it is on the poems that his reputation still rests. This new biography—based on some 1,800 of Thomas's letters—tells the story of his courtship, his restless marriage, and his tormented need to choos…