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Poetry and the firstworld war;Late starter 诗歌与第一次世界大战;诗坛后起之秀 Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years ofEdward Thomas. By Matthew Hollis. 《如今条条大道通法国：爱德华托马斯人生最后几年》，马修霍利斯著。 Edward Thomas was a late starter to poetry. Icouldn t write a poem to save my life, he declaredaged 35, when a literary hack of minorbiographies and travel memoirs, struggling to support a wife and three children. A year later,and three years before he was killed by a passing shell in the Arras offensive in the firstworld war, he had written and published some of the finest poems to come out of Britain atthe beginning of the 20th century. 爱德华托马斯在诗歌方面是一位后起之秀。我没法靠写诗养家糊口 。他在35岁时如是说。当时他是一位受雇文人，写一些短篇传记和游记，艰难地供养妻子和三个孩子。他在36岁时创作并发表了一些诗歌。在20世纪初的英国，他的这些诗作是最优秀的。又过了三年以后，他在第一次世界大战的阿拉斯战役中被炮弹击中，不幸身亡。 What changed Thomas from a middling prose writer to a dazzling poet is the central themeof Matthew Hollis s engaging new book, which won two awards for biography when it cameout in Britain last year and is just now being published in America. Mr Hollis, a poet andeditor, focuses on the last five years of Thomas s life before he died in 1917. | 
