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Edward Thomas est un poète et essayiste britannique, d'origine galloise. Il est généralement considéré comme un des « poètes de guerre », quoique très peu de ses poèmes portent directement sur son expérience au front. Edward Thomas ne commença à écrire des poèmes qu’en 1914, alors que sa carrière en tant qu’auteur était déjà ancienne. Il s’engagea dans les forces armées britanniques durant la Première Guerre mondiale. Il meurt lors de la bataille d'Arras en 1917, peu de temps après son arrivée en France.



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✵ 3. mars 1878 – 9. avril 1917
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Edward Thomas: Citations en anglais

“The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.”

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Source: "The Unknown", line 16, cited from Collected Poems (London: Selwyn & Blount, 1920), p. 116.

“Yes. I remember Adlestrop –
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.”

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"Adlestrop", line 1, cited from Collected Poems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978) p. 71.

“I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,
Sniff them and think and sniff again and try
Once more to think what it is I am remembering,
Always in vain. I cannot like the scent,
Yet I would rather give up others more sweet,
With no meaning, than this bitter one.”

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Poem Old Man http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/old-man/

“The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood
This Eastertide call into mind the men,
Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should
Have gathered them and will do never again.”

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"In Memoriam (Easter 1915)", line 1, cited from Collected Poems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978) p. 173.

“I built myself a house of glass:
It took me years to make it:
And I was proud. But now, alas!
Would God someone would break it.”

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"I Built Myself a House of Glass", line 1, cited from Collected Poems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978) p. 215.

“I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers - as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero.”

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The South Country (London: Dent, 1909) pp. 98-99.

“If I should ever by chance grow rich
I'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,
Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,
And let them all to my eldest daughter.”

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Poem If I Should Ever By Chance http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-i-should-ever-by-chance/