Overview
Under Storm's Wing collects all that Helen Thomas (1877-1967) wrote aboutthe poet Edward Thomas (1878-1917): the celebrated volumes As It Was andWorld Without End, her letters to Edward, and separate memoirs of hermeetings with W.H. Davies, D.H.Lawrence, Ivor Gurney, Eleanor Farjeon,Robert Frost and W.H.Hudson. The book has been assembled by Myfanwy,Edward's and Helen's youngest daughter. She includes her own enchantedaccount of childhood with her father, and the tragedy of his death at theBattle of Arras in 1917. She adds an appendix of six letters from RobertFrost to Edward Thomas. Helen wrote As It Was, the story of her courtship and early marriage,shortly after Edward's death, and World Without End a few years later. Inthe original editions and later reprints fictitious names were used for theprotagonists. In this edition the actual names are restored. The book provides a brilliant, lasting evocation of one ofBritain's best-loved poets.Author Biography
Helen Thomas married Edward Thomas (1878-1917) in 1899. In order to support his family, Edward became a prolific writer of essays, introductions, reviews, biographies, and studies of the English and Welsh countryside. Thomas's meeting with Robert Frost in 1913 was the catalyst for his turning to poetry. His first collection was published in 1917, six months after his death in the Arras offensive. Helen was untiring in her efforts to make his work known, and lived to see it firmly established in the cannon of English poetry. They had three children, of whom Myfanwy (b.1910) is the youngest.
