10.5287/BODLEIAN8MIS.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
War Diary: Final Pages (b)
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
1917-01-13
2011-11-30 20:57:23.576562
2011
ww1-1382
76 mm
132 mm
Notebook
The final pages of the pocket book contain what is undoubtedly the last poem that Edward Thomas wrote. The poem shows a strong influence of Shakespeare's sonnets, for as his diary and letters show, he read Shakespeare regularly each night during the short time he was stationed in France.