Land writings : excursions in the footprints of Edward Thomas / by James Riding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riding, James, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917--Criticism and interpretation.

Thomas, Edward.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917--Correspondence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

Whilst out walking one day in the shade at the age of thirty-six, with the First World War looming, Edward Thomas decided to become a poet. In the few years that followed, believing he belonged nowhere, he tramped across rolling chalk downland, stitching himself to the landscape. Gently slanting from the door of his stone cottage, the South Downs - a range of chalk hills that extend across the southeastern coastal counties of England from Hampshire in the west to Sussex in the east - became day by day the mainspring of his poetry. As a perennial poet and essayist of the South Downs, Edward Thomas remains an enduring presence a century later in the downland he trampled daily, treading and documenting a series of paths around the village of Steep, East Hampshire, where he lived until enlisting. Arranging itself around a number of journeys in pursuit of the early twentieth century poet and nature writer, this book provides a personal and moving tale of encountering literature in landscape, retreading Edward Thomas's footprints from the beginning of his epically creative final four years, to the site where he died in 1917, during the Battle of Arras.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Edward Thomas: A Geographical Biography

Death Drive: Edward Thomas's Grave

Kotor: A Vertical Walk

Steep: A Dot-to-Dot Walk

The Manor Farm: A Walk Poem

The Chalk Pit: A Residual Walk

Fellowship: The Birthday Loops

Kettled: A March on Parliament

The Start: London to Guildford

Guildford to Dunbridge

From Dunbridge over Salisbury Plain

Three Wessex Poets

The Avon, Biss, and Frome

Trowbridge to Shepton Mallet

Shepton Mallet to Bridgwater

Bridgwater to the Sea

The Grave of Winter

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 18, 2017).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-4438-7388-8

OCLC:

992224697