In Pursuit of Edward Thomas
The poet Edward Thomas died at the Battle of Arras in April 1917. Matthew Hollis follows a journey he made in 1913 from London into south west England and towards poetry.
The poet Edward Thomas died at the Battle of Arras one hundred years ago on 9th April 1917. He'd been a poet for little more than two years and his collected works amount to only a slim volume. Nevertheless he is regarded as among the greatest of English poets. What made him so? Poet and editor, Matthew Hollis, follows a journey Thomas made by bike in the spring of 1913 from London into south west England. It was a journey that produced a prose book for Thomas, In Pursuit of Spring, but it was also a journey that turned him towards poetry. Producer: Tim Dee.
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- Thu 6 Apr 2017 11:30±«Óãtv Radio 4
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