*Waves*
Hello, new DW people!
Most of you seem to be people I know from That Other Place, but in case you are not, the introductory post is here.
In order to provide a little more content, I might add that I discovered that the poet Edward Thomas was killed at Battle of Arras, Easter Monday 1917. Apart from a handful of poems within his relatively small oeuvre, he's not really a War Poet, even if his starting writing poetry fairly late in life coincided with the Great War.
I also observe that there is a commemorative exhibition + conference happening at the University of Cardiff, somewhere I doubt I am likely to get to within the relevant time frame, alas.
My love for his poems is a shining example of 'being made to read a thing at school' (in this instance, in the anthology set for O-level English Lit) being a good thing rather than a turn-off. (On the other hand, being made to read great chunks of The Prelude for A-level ditto did not endear Wordsworth to my heart.) This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2590995.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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