Edward Thomas: The Ship of Swallows

Hooker, Jeremy (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1904634168 / ISBN 13: 9781904634164

Published by Enitharmon Press, London, 2005

About this Item

Hardback, with dust-wrapper. 108pp. Frontis. 1st edition 2005. Slightest wear. A very decent copy. (r28).

Seller Inventory # R28BRNYEL206

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Edward Thomas: The Ship of Swallows
• Publisher: Enitharmon Press, London
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904634168
• ISBN 13: 9781904634164
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Stories

About this title

Synopsis

Edward Thomas' stories formed an important stage in his imaginative development, and constitute a significant achievement. His fiction includes stories reflecting his personal quest for spiritual and social values, which have considerable psychological interest; and versions of traditional Celtic and Norse tales and English proverbs. In both original and traditional tales Thomas explores the relation between the human world and the realm of nature. His stories were, as he said, written under a 'real impulse', and they represent his whole effort to shape imaginative responses to fundamental questions of life and death, the self, and reality. "The Ship of Swallows" is the first selection to have been made exclusively from Edward Thomas' fiction, which it represents at its best.

About the Author

Edward Thomas was born in London in 1878 and educated at St Paul's School and Lincoln College, Oxford. While still an undergraduate, he published his first book, The Woodland Life, and married Helen Noble, with whom he had three children. Thomas became a professional author, producing over twenty prose books, as well as a novel (The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans), a biography of Richard Jefferies, and critical studies of Maurice Maeterlinck, Lafcadio Hearn, George Borrow, Walter Pater, Swinburne and Keats. He also introduced editions of Borrow, George Herbert, Christopher Marlowe and William Cobbett, and wrote hundreds of book reviews and articles. Encouraged by Robert Frost, he began writing poetry in 1914 producing a remarkable body of poetry in the next few years. Only a few poems were published in his lifetime, under the pseudonym Edward Eastaway; Poems by Edward Thomas was published in October 1917 and the first edition of his Collected Poems in 1920. Thomas joined the Artists' Rifles in 1915. He was killed on Easter Sunday 1917 during the Battle of Arras.Jeremy Hooker has published ten collections of poetry, of which the most recent is Adamah. His other books include Writers in a Landscape, Imagining Wales: a View of Modern Welsh Writing in English, studies of David Jones and John Cowper Powys, and Welsh Journal. He has edited writings by Alun Lewis, Frances Bellerby, Richard Jefferies, and Wilfred Owen. He is Professor of English at the University of Glamorgan.