Thesiss

This thesis muddies the idea of singular being, tracing the footprints of nature writer and poet Edward Thomas, from the beginning of his epically creative final four years, to the site where he died in 1917, during the Battle of Arras. It is presented as a series of engagements…

A rich tradition of nature writing exists within American literature. Writing with a focus on the natural world can be traced to America’s earliest writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Henry David Thoreau, and John Muir. With the turn into the twentieth-centur…