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Robert Macfarlane on Landscape and the Human Heart

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Edward Thomas - A Memoir of a Rural Dreamer

Edward Thomas wrote 140 poems in just over two years during the First World War. He was obsessed with how we are affirmed and scattered by landscapes through which we move, he says. Ted Hughes famously said at one point, Edward Thomas' father of us all.

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