The Lofty Sky

Scope and Content

First line: Today I want the sky.

Written in Steep.

Poem 24 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 79.

Drafts:

(1) Typescript once owned by Eleanor Farjeon [incomplete]

(2) British Library (Add MS. 44990)

(3) Typescript sent to Harry Hooton, bought by Norman Colbeck, now in the Colbeck Collection, University of British Columbia

First published in Root and Branch: A Seasonal of the Arts, ed. James Guthrie, vol. II pt. 2 (Dec 1917). A copy at 424/2/152.

Related Material

See R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p.78 for variant drafts.