Edward Thomas' Pastoral works

Edward Thomas' Pastoral works

Edward Thomas' Pastoral works

There is considerable evidence that, at the beginning of the 1940s, Edward Thomas's verse contributed to the evolution of R.S. Thomas's aesthetic, offering him an instructive example of how he may begin to get away from the rather clichéd and often exceptionally sentimental verse he had been producing in the Georgian style and towards a much more tactile poetry, characterised by close and often deeply unromantic observation.

As well as identifying a number of significant emphases on nature, the research will examine nature as the other face of identity in Edward Thomas' works. ...