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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811858503321

Autore

Kendall Judy

Titolo

Edward Thomas : the origins of his poetry / / Judy Kendall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, [Wales] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-299-20104-0

0-7083-2452-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

Writing Wales in English

Disciplina

820.93217340904

Soggetti

Pastoral poetry, English - History and criticism

Soldiers' writings, English - History and criticism

English poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on the Text and Abbreviations; Introduction: Studying the Composing Process; Starting Points - How Poems Emerge; Poetry and Oral Literature; Ellipses and Aporia; Gaps; Unfinishedness . . .; Temporal Dislocation; Dislocating Thought; Divagations; Appendices; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Edward Thomas: The Origins of his Poetry builds a new theoretical framework for critical work on imaginative composition through an investigation of Edward Thomas's composing processes, on material from his letters, his poems and his prose books. It looks at his relation to the land and landscape and includes detailed and illuminating new readings of his poems. It traces connections between Thomas's approach to composition and the writing and thought of Freud, Woolf and William James, and the influence of Japanese aesthetics, and draws surprising and far-reaching conclusions for the study of p