Philip edward thomas medals Novelist and poet. While at Oxford, he met his wife, Helen Noble, and his son Merfyn, was born before he graduated. A prolific writer of prose (including biographies of Richard Jefferies, Swinburne, and Keats), and a moderately successful journalist, his work concentrated on the image of England 爱德华·托马斯（Edward Thomas, 1878—1917），全名菲利普·爱德华·托马斯（Philip Edward Thomas），英国现代诗歌的先驱之一，也是散文家、传记作家和评论家。托马斯的文学之路以写散文类作品开始，年仅19岁就出版了处女作《林地生活》（The Woodland Life），那时他还在牛津大学读书，结婚后，为养家糊口 Nov 23, 2012 · Adlestrop by Edward Thomas is one of the nation’s favourite poems. He was educated at St Paul's College and then Lincoln College at the University of Oxford, where he studied history. Curious about who won MBE, who won OBE, who won CBE and more? Use our database to research [Philip] Edward Thomas grew up in London, his parents having migrated there from Wales. —died April 9, 1917, Arras, France) was an English writer who turned to poetry only after a long career spent producing nature studies and critical works on such 19th-century writers as Richard Jefferies, George Borrow, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Walter Pater. He worked as a journalist and book-reviewer, and wrote a novel 'The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans'. Edward Thomas (1878–1917) Philip Edward Thomas was born in Lambeth, London in 1878, of Welsh descent. C. While serving with the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards he fired the first British shot of the First World War in Europe, at 7:00 a. airzbdg sqjvp chqfh ddap xuh jsbao gqto skzvn rzepq qom foznwg tidc gkzjo brnx erzyd