Available now for Kindle pre-order. Publishing Sept 16 and only 99p - the first of three linked monographs on English prose writing about nature and landscape in the heyday of the genre around 1900.
One of those Yellow Book essays most certainly had an effect on his protege. This was the cautionary tale of the Scottish writer Alexander Smith who became an overnight poetic sensation, compared with Byron, only to have his reputation crushed by a vindictive critic. Rather than hiding in shame, Smith reinvented himself as a successful nature writer and 'Mentoring Edward Thomas' shows just how close the young Thomas's technique was to Smith's.
'Mentoring Edward Thomas' is fully annotated with its own bibliography.
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