Summary: <strong>Edward Thomas</strong>, in full <strong>Philip Edward Thomas</strong>, (born March 3, 1878, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Lambeth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lambeth</a>, London, Eng.—died April 9, 1917, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Arras" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Arras</a>, France), English writer who turned to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/poetry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">poetry</a> only after a long career spent producing nature studies and critical works on such 19th-century writers as <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Jefferies" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Richard Jefferies</a>, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Borrow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Borrow</a>, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Algernon-Charles-Swinburne" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Algernon Charles Swinburne</a>, and <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Pater" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Walter Pater</a>. --Biography via Britannica.com. <br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
