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[An] excellent account . . . beautifully structured by place, year and season.

[An] excellent account...beautifully structured by place, year and season. A perceptive biography that traces an author's trajectory from disillusioned prose scribe to acclaimed poet... Poet Hollis (Ground Water, 2004), who edited a volume of Thomas' selected poetry, expertly recreates the upheaval of English society as it made the transition from genteel post-Victorianism to brash modernism. Thomas stood poised on the dividing line between W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot and justly remains a towering figure in English poetry. This diligently researched and masterfully written exposition will appeal to Anglophiles and fans of literary biography. I read this book entranced, inspired, anxious, and grateful, and I finished it in tears. It is important and it is wonderful. -- Carol Ann Duffy, British poet laureate

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Matthew Hollis is the author of Ground Water, Earth House, and Now All Roads Lead to France: A Life of Edward Thomas, a Sunday Times Biography of the Year. He is the poetry editor at Faber & Faber, London, and lives in the United Kingdom.

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