Almeida, LondonPlays about poets are notoriously problematic. But Nick Dear overcomes the difficulties in this probing, intelligent piece about Edward Thomas, who produced a formidable body of work between 1914 and his death at Arras in 1917. Dear makes no attempt to disguise the jagged awkwardness of Thomas's depressive personality; what he does is explore the impulses that drove Thomas to write, in a way that makes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57AM on November 16, 2012