Edward Thomas never left the train that stopped briefly at a Cotswold station, Adlestrop, just before World War I, but what he saw resulted in one of the best k

A completely updated new edition of David Lowenthal's classic account of how we reshape the past to serve present needs.

This is the extraordinary life of a poetic genius. Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet. A war po

The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least

Based on theory but with a practical dimension, the book engages readers in current critical debates about poetry teaching and its place in an assessment-driven