Megalithic Poems

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gjrk Jun 28, 2008 20:11:09
Replying to Littlestone

You all may have seen this already but there's a large piece in today's Guardian on Edward Thomas - interesting conclusion on 'Lob' being a personification of "poetry and its role in collective memory".
Once again it's difficult not to think of a door thrown back and a shout; "I have arrived!", only for a trapdoor to open under his feet. Mesmerising legacy though. He had a lot to say.

'Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems', Edna Longley (ed.), Bloodaxe (£12).

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moss Jun 29, 2008 08:03:48
Replying to gjrk

Thomas was also influenced by Richard Jefferies " The Story of My Heart", an extraordinary eloquent piece of writing by Jefferies in search of the very inner spiritual meaning in nature and his striving for it. Thomas in fact wrote a biography of Jefferies, and this 'nature writing' can also be found in H.J.Massingham's work...... The Lob poem is of course evoking that which is to be lost..