A Private

Scope and Content

First line: This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors.

Written in Steep.

Poem 19 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 67.

Drafts:

(1) British Library (Add MSS. 44990), two versions

First published in An Annual of New Poetry (1917).

Related Material

See R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p.66 for variant drafts.