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"The Heart of England" by Edward Thomas. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

"Oxford" by Edward Thomas. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

This title is one of Thomas's essays on travel, which portraits the English countryside enriched with interesting historical details. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) was a British poet, essayist, and novelist. Thomas's poems are noted for their attention to the English countryside and a certain colloquial style. His career in poetry only came after he had already been a successful writer and literary critic. In 1915, he enlisted in the British Army to fight in the First World War and was killed in action during the Battle of Arras in 1917, soon after he arrived in France. The short poem In Memoriam exemplifies how his poetry blends the themes of war and the countryside. "Much has been written of travel, far less of the road. Writers have treated the road as a passive means to an end, and honoured it most when it has been an obstacle; they leave the impression that a road is a connection between two points which only exists when the traveller is upon it." (Edward Thomas, The Icknield Way)

"Last Poems" by Edward Thomas. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

"Windsor Castle" by Edward Thomas. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

"The Happy-go-lucky Morgans" by Edward Thomas. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

"The South Country" by Edward Thomas. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Номер тематический — «Англия, которая гуляет сама по себе», и открывается он романом Ричарда Хьюза (1900—1976) «Крепкий ветер на Ямайке» в переводе Александра Глазырина.

Стихи Филипа Артура Ларкина (1922—1985) в переводе и со вступлением Михаила Липкина. «Ларкин, — сказано во вступлении, — даже если и не дарует утешения, то, по крайней мере, разделяет с читателем столь свойственное современному человеку западной культуры ощущение одиночества и ущемленности. А это уже немало».

В рубрике «Из классики ХХ века» — два рассказа Редьярда Киплинга (1865—1936) в переводе Александра Глазырина.

Рассказ «Водоворот» с многозначительным подзаголовком «август 1914» — доктринерские разглагольствования и непредвиденное обстоятельство, или человек предполагает, а Бог располагает.

И второй — «Пророк в своем отечестве». Дорожно-транспортное происшествие и встреча с пророчествующим американцем.

Здесь же — статья историка-архивиста Константина Львова «Колесо, озеро, беспроволочный телеграф». Автор пытается найти ключ к творческому методу и мировоззрению «самого совершенного гения» (Генри Джеймс).

Рубрика NB. Эдвард Томас (1878—1917). Стихи. Перевод и вступление Ильи Кутика. Переводчик называет Томаса «одним из самых своеобразных и таинственных британских поэтов начала ХХ века…»

«Неизвестная классика». Поэт и прозаик Уолтер Де Ла Мэр (1873—1956). Два рассказа. Перевод и вступление Александра Глазырина. Во вступлении приводится характеристика, данная поэту энциклопедией «Британника»: «…поэт и прозаик, обладающий необычайной силой вызывать к жизни призрачные мимолетные моменты бытия».

«Миндальное дерево» — детство, семейный разлад, трагическая гибель отца и — почти день в день — рождение брата.

«Все святые» — древний собор на океанском берегу, возможно, стал пристанищем нечистой силы.

Следующий раздел «Байрон — 200 лет со дня смерти».

«Дон Жуан». Песнь одиннадцатая. Перевод Михаила Кузмина. Вступление, подготовка текста и комментарии Константина Львова.

Эссе переводчика и программиста Владимира Ослона (р. 1955) «Мой Байрон: стихи к Тирзе». Несколько стихотворений Байрона памяти одного адресата.

Рубрика «Из будущей книги». Александр Ливергант (р. 1947) «У позорного столба». Глава из книги «Даниель Дефо. Факт и вымысел».

Рубрика «Переперевод». Оскар Уайльд (1856—1900). Стихи. К 170-летию со дня рождения. Перевод и вступление Александра Васина.

«Трибуна переводчика». Вера Калмыкова отдает должное переводам Максима Калинина из Роберта Саути.

Рубрика «Круговая порука». Литераторы Василий Нацентов, Константин Львов и Даша Сиротинская высказываются о романе Иэна Макьюэна «Упражнения».

И — библиография: Английская литература на страницах «ИЛ» 2020—2024.

Since the publication of Walter de la Mare's first edition of his poems in 1920, Edward Thomas has gradually come to be seen as one of the great English poets of the 20th century. Though sometimes classified with Owen, Rosenberg, and Sassoon as a "war poet," he was rather a poet who died tragically in the war. His main subjects were the English countryside and people, solitude, and the anguish of solipsism. As de la Mare wrote eighty years ago, "When Edward Thomas was killed in Flanders, a mirror of England was shattered of so pure and true a crystal that a clearer and tenderer reflection of it can be found no other where than in these poems." This complete collection of Thomas's poems returns us to the ongoing relevance of this essential poet. Revealing a poet whose work resonates in our times, this volume will be returned to again and again.
The sorrow of true love is a great sorrow And true love parting blackens a bright morrow:
Yet almost they equal joys, since their despair Is but hope blinded by its tears, and clear Above the storm the heavens wait to be seen.
But greater sorrow from less love has been That can mistake lack of despair for hope And knows not tempest and the perfect scope Of summer, but a frozen drizzle perpetual Of drops that from remorse and pity fall And cannot ever shine in the sun or thaw,
Removed eternally from the sun's law.
- Last Poem [The sorrow of true love]

The subject of this book was a man who was continually writing about himself, whether openly or in disguise. He was by nature inclined to thinking about himself and when he came to write he naturally wrote about himself; and his inclination was fortmed by the obvious impression made upon other men by himself and by his writings. He has been o.ead thirty years j much has been written about him by those who knew him or knew those that did: yet the impression still made by him, and it is one of the most powerful, is due mainly to his own books. N or has anything lately come to light to provide another writer on Borrow with an excuse. the impertinence of the task can be tempered only by its apparent hopelessness and by that necessity which Voltaire did not see. r shall attempt only a re-arrangement of the myriad details accessible to all in the writings of Borrow and about Borrow.

'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?'

The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, from poets whose words commemorate the conflict as enduringly as monuments in stone. Their poems have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets. As well as offering generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney, it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. Music hall and trench songs provide a further lyrical perspective on the War.

The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context. In addition, Tim Kendall's introduction charts the history of the war poets' reception and challenges prevailing myths about their progress from idealism to bitterness.