Edward Thomas

A very welcome new biography ... solidly researched and detailed ... sends one back to Thomas’s work newly enthused, and brings to light a good deal of new material -- Peter Parker * Daily Telegraph * Timely ... almost a hundred years after his death, Moorcroft Wilson has exposed a man with a remarkable double life, full of melancholy secrets -- Robert McCrum * Observer * A remarkably honest biography -- John Sutherland * The Times * The most important biography of Thomas to appear for thirty years * Mark Bostridge, author of The Fateful Year and Vera Brittain and the First World War * Jean Moorcroft Wilson, undisputed doyenne of War Poet biographers, caps her work on Rosenberg and Sassoon with this fine biography of the greatest poet of the trio. Did we need another Life of Thomas? The answer must be a resounding “Yes” * Nigel Jones, author of Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth and The War Walk: A Journey along the Western Front * Absorbing ... Wilson's book is the fullest biography of Thomas yet published. It's also the frankest ... Wilson gives a balanced account of his marriage and of the consequences of Thomas's restlessness, his bouts of severe depression, his period of analysis with Helton Godwin Baynes (later Jung's chief British disciple), his falling for a beautiful teenager (Hope Webb) in 1908 and his suicide attempts -- Matthew Bevis * Literary Review * Splendid … fresh and new * Edna Longley, Professor Emerita, Queen's University Belfast * With this book Jean Moorcroft Wilson admirably completes a quartet of authoritative critical biographies including Sassoon, Rosenberg and Sorley ... A century on Thomas’s appeal is increasingly a nostalgic one, for its celebration of an embattled rural world, now over-populated and dominated by modern machinery. * Michael Thorpe, English Studies *