ACS, 171.
36. MM, 27.
37. Review of W.B. Yeats, Collected Works, Morning Post, 17 December 1908.
38. Review of W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight, new ed., Daily Chronicle, 12 July 1902.
39. TC, 2.
40. Review of Ezra Pound, Personae, Daily Chronicle, 7 June 1909; review of Pound, Exultations, Daily Chronicle, 23 November 1909.
41. Review of Des Imagistes: An Anthology, New Weekly, 9 May 1914.
42. SLRF, 113.
43. SLRF, 217.
44. (Ed.) Longley, Edward Thomas: Poems and Last Poems (London: Collins, 1973).
45. Review of The Dublin Book of Irish Verse, Morning Post, 6 January 1910.
46. SC, 7.
47. SC, 151-2.
48. From the last paragraph of Jefferies’s The Amateur Poacher (1879), see CET, 134.
49. SC, 144.
50. SL, 51.
51. See Alun Howkins, The Death of Rural England (London: Routledge, 2003).
52. TC, 21-2; review of new verse, Daily Chronicle, 30 August 1905.
53. RJ, 144.
Anyone who edits Edward Thomas’s poems is greatly indebted to the late R. George Thomas. Among his other contributions to Thomas studies, he edited The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978) [henceforth CP1978], which has a virtually comprehensive textual apparatus. If I have arrived at some different textual decisions – all differences are indicated in the Notes – it is largely R. George Thomas who marshalled the materials on which such decisions must be based. He also created the invaluable Edward Thomas Collection (Cardiff University Library), where many relevant documents are assembled. In the present edition, the textual note on each poem records its main manuscript source(s) and its initial publication(s) in book-form (including pamphlets and anthologies). Other sources and printings are cited where necessary. Details of manuscripts, typescripts and publications of poems are given in Abbreviations (325).
In 1917, shortly before Thomas’s death, he published eighteen poems in An Annual of New Poetry [AANP] under his pseudonym ‘Edward Eastaway’ (Eastaway was a family name). Poems by Edward Eastaway [P] appeared posthumously in the same year.
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