Shortly after 7am on April 9 1917, 39-year-old writer Edward Thomas was killed by a shell during the Battle of Arras in northern France. He left a body of mostly unpublished work that has since ...

When we look back on the period in English poetry that stretches from 1910 to the early 1920s, Edward Thomas looks more and more to be its most significant poet. That there were many poets of the ...

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...