Adlestrop by Edward Thomas is one of the nation’s favourite poems. Written in the heat of battle by an officer who was doomed not to survive the war, Adlestrop idealises the stillness of a railway station in an English country village before the First World War. This podcast will consider the literary and military career of Edward Thomas, the impact of the railways on the English countryside at the start of the 20th century and whether or not 1914 really does represent the culmination of the ‘Long Edwardian Summer’.
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Published date: 23 November 2012
Author: Duration: 30:19
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John Ellwood
This poem was not written in ” the heat of battle” . It was written in 1914 before the Great War, and before Thomas enlisted in 1915