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52696: The Dark Forest

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posted on 2024-04-25, 17:29 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

The final stanza probably reflects Edward Thomas' feelings after visiting his parents in London. Soon afterwards his mother had an eye operation. Written at a firing camp in Wiltshire to which Thomas had been moved. The manuscript is untitled and is labeled 'Dark is the forest and deep, and overhead' in Thomas 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems' and 'The Dark Forest by Longley 'Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems'.

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2208.jpg | ETCAR_41_131.jpg

Subject

Landscape | Somme | Western Front

Creator

Thomas, Edward (1878-1917)

Date

Oct-16

Date Created

01/10/1916

Temporal Date

31/10/1916

Spatial

Trowbridge, England

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

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Pen

Type

Poem

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

Cardiff University Library Archive / The Edward Thomas Literary Estate

Collection ID

The Edward Thomas Collection: 41

Repository Name

Cardiff University Library Archive

Repository Address

Information Services, Cardiff University, P.O. Box 430, Cardiff, CF24 0DE, UK

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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First World War Poetry Digital Archive World War One Poems Landscape Somme Western Front

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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