After yesterday’s sombre dialogue by Edward Thomas, here is a sunnier memento of that fine poet, killed at Arras a hundred years ago. Adlestrop, set in the idyllic southern countryside, is probably ...

In other words, some experience or vision, however fleetingly glimpsed, endures in memory as a redemptive and healing presence, to “renovate” and “repair” the mind caught in and damaged by some later ...

YES, I remember Adlestrop" is the first line of a poem written by Edward Thomas after a journey from Paddington to Ledbury in June, 1914. You will surely remember Adlestrop too after passing through ...

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