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The unfinished memoir of one of England’s most loved poets. The Childhood of Edward Thomas is the autobiography Thomas wrote in 1914–1915, shortly before he was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 — a fragment looking back at his boyhood in Victorian London and the countryside that shaped his imagination.
Thomas recalls a childhood spent half in the city and half in the fields: long walks, bird-watching, a deepening bond with the natural world that would run through his poetry and prose. He writes with unusual honesty about parents, schooling, and the moods of an inward-looking boy — loneliness, wonder, escape — capturing feelings many readers will recognize.
Left incomplete and unpublished in his lifetime, later brought out by Faber & Faber, it is now treasured as a companion to his poems: a rare, intimate portrait of the making of a writer. Quiet, lyrical, deeply moving — essential for lovers of nature writing and literary biography.
The Childhood of Edward Thomas is the unfinished autobiography of one of England’s most loved poets. Written in 1914–1915, shortly before Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917, this fragment of a memoir looks back at his boyhood in Victorian London and the countryside that shaped his imagination.
Thomas recalls a childhood spent half in the city and half in the fields — long walks, bird-watching, and a deepening bond with the natural world that would later run through his poetry and prose. He writes with unusual honesty about his parents, his schooling, and the moods and longings of an inward-looking boy, capturing feelings of loneliness, wonder, and escape that many readers will recognize.
Left incomplete and unpublished in his lifetime, the memoir was later brought out by Faber & Faber and is now treasured as a companion to Thomas’s poems. It offers a rare, intimate portrait of the making of a writer: a boy learning to observe, to remember, and to turn experience into art. Quiet, lyrical, and deeply moving, The Childhood of Edward Thomas is essential reading for lovers of nature writing, literary biography, and Edward Thomas’s own haunting verse.
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