Selected Bibliography
The Poems
Abercrombie
The Poems of Lascelles Abercrombie, Oxford University
Press, 1930
Brooke
Rupert Brooke: The Collected Poems - with a memoir
by Edward Marsh, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1979
Drinkwater
The Collected Poems of John Drinkwater, vols I and
II, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1923
Frost
The Poetry of Robert Frost - The Collected Poems Complete and
Unabridged, edited by Edward Connery Lathem, Holt, Rinehart
& Winston,1969
Gibson
Collected Poems, 1905-1925, Macmillan, 1929
Thomas
The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas, edited by R.
George Thomas, Oxford University Press, 1978
The above list does not include separate volumes, of which there are many for all of the poets
Introductory
There are three books which provide a good introduction, covering all the Dymock Poets and their time in the Dymock area. These are:
Clark, Keith: The Muse Colony - Dymock 1914, Redcliffe, 1992
Hart, Linda: Once They Lived in Gloucestershire: A Dymock Poets Anthology, Green Branch Press, 1995, 2000
Street, Sean: The Dymock Poets, Seren, 1994
Dymock Poets Archive & Study Centre Occasional Papers
Published by the University of Gloucestershire
1. Sean Street, Rupert Brooke: The Unimpeded Self, 1996
2. Roger Hogg, WW Gibson: The People's Poet, 1996 (out
of print)
3. Jeff Cooper, Lascelles Abercrombie and the Origin of the
Poets' Colony at Dymock, 1997
4. Richard Emeny, Edward Thomas: An Introduction, 1997
5. James Armstrong & Linda Hart, Robert Frost's Clouded
Image, 1998
6. Lynn Parker, Those Are Celestial Chimney Pots: A Reading
of John Drinkwater, 1998 (out of print)
Copies of those Papers still in print are available from the
Dymock Poets Archive & Study Centre, Francis Close Hall, University
of Gloucestershire, Swindon Rd, Cheltenham, Glos, GL50 4NZ
Other Books and Articles
Abercrombie, Lascelles: 'The End of the World' in Two Plays,
The Cyder Press, Cheltenham, 1999
Abercrombie, Catherine: 'Memories of a Poet's Wife', The Listener,
15 November 1956, p.793
Berridge, Anthony, ed: The Letters of Edward Thomas to Jesse
Berridge, Enitharmon Press, 1983
Brooke, Rupert: 'Lithuania' in Two Plays, The Cyder Press,
Cheltenham, 1999
Cooke, William: Edward Thomas: A Critical Biography, Faber,
1970
Coombes, H.: Edward Thomas, Chatto & Windus, 1956
Drinkwater, John: Inheritance, Being the First Book of an Autobiography,
Ernest Benn,1931
-------- Discovery, Being the Second Book of an Autobiography,
1897-1913, Ernest Benn, 1932
-------- Rupert Brooke: An Essay, printed for the author
at Chiswick Press, 1916
Eckert, Robert P.: Edward Thomas - A Biography and a Bibliography,
J.M. Dent & Sons, 1937
Farjeon, Eleanor: Edward Thomas - The Last Four Years,
Oxford University Press, 1979
Francis, Lesley Lee: The Frost Family's Adventure in Poetry,
University of Missouri Press, 1994
Gawsworth, John: Ten Contemporaries: Notes Toward their Definitive
Bibliography, Ernest Benn, 1932
Gethyn-Jones, Rev. J.E.: Dymock Down the Ages, orig. 1951,
reprinted Alan Sutton, 1985
Gibson, W.W.: Battle, The Cyder Press, Cheltenham, 1999
Haines, John: 'Wilfrid Gibson', Gloucester Journal, 15
December 1934; 'Lascelles Abercrombie', Gloucester Journal,
12 January 1935; 'Robert Frost', Gloucester Journal, 2
February 1935; 'Edward Thomas', Gloucester Journal, 16
February 1935;
------- 'The Dymock Poets', Gloucestershire Countryside,
October 1933 (vol.1, no. 9, p.131)
Hassall, Christopher: Edward Marsh - Patron of the Arts,
Longmans, 1959
--------- Rupert Brooke: A Biography, Faber and Faber,
1964
Brooke, Letters Keynes, Geoffrey, ed: The Letters of Rupert
Brooke, Faber and Faber, 1968
Marsh, Edward, ed: Georgian Poetry, five editions published
between 1912 and 1922 by The Poetry Bookshop, London
Marsh, Jan: Edward Thomas - A Poet for His Country, Paul
Elek, 1978
Moore, John: The Life and Letters of Edward Thomas, Heinemann,
1939, republished Alan Sutton, 1983
Motion, Andrew: The Poetry of Edward Thomas, Routledge
& Kegan Paul, 1980, republished Hogarth Press, 1991
New Numbers, Ryton, Dymock, 1914 (four issues, containing
poems by Abercrombie, Gibson, Brooke, Drinkwater)
Parini, Jay: Robert Frost: A Life, William Heinemann, 1998
Poetry Wales - Edward Thomas Special Centenary Issue, Spring
1978, vol.13, no.4
Read, Mike: Forever England: The Life of Rupert Brooke,
Mainstream Publishing, 1997
Reeves, James, ed: Georgian Poetry, Penguin 1962, reprinted
1966
Rogers, Timothy, Rupert Brooke: A Reappraisal and Selection,
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971
-------- ed: Georgian Poetry 1911-1922: The Critical Heritage,
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977
Ross, Robert H.: The Georgian Revolt: 1910-1922 - The Rise
and Fall of a Poetic Ideal, Southern Illinois University Press,
1965
Thomas, Edward: Keats, The Cyder Press, Cheltenham, 1999
Thomas, Edward: The Country, The Cyder Press, Cheltenham,
1999
Thomas, Edward: The Last Sheaf: Essays by Edward Thomas,
Jonathan Cape, 1928
Thomas, Edward: In Pursuit of Spring, Thomas Nelson &
Sons, 1914, reprinted Wildwood House, 1981
Thomas, R. George, ed: The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas,
Oxford University Press, 1978
Thomas, R. George, Edward Thomas - A Portrait, Clarendon
Press, 1985
Thomas, R. George, ed: Letters from Edward Thomas to Gordon
Bottomley, Oxford University Press, 1968
Thomas, Edward: In Pursuit of Spring, Thomas Nelson &
Sons 1914, reprinted Wildwood House, 1981
Thomas, Helen and Myfanwy: Under Storm's Wing, Paladin
Books, 1990
Thompson, Lawrance: Robert Frost: The Early Years 1894-1915,
Jonathan Cape, 1967.
Thompson, Lawrance, ed: Selected Letters of Robert Frost,
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964
Turner, John Frayn: Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain,
Breese Books, 1992
Walsh, John Evangelist: Into My Own - The English Years of
Robert Frost, Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1988
Booksellers specialising in the Dymock Poets
Cyder Press
The University of Gloucestershire runs the Cyder Press which publishes monographs and short anthologies covering writers assopciated with Gloucestershire including the Dymock Poets.
You can buy their publications by mail order or directly using their e-commerce website.
First Editions, Second-Hand, Out of Print
For first editions, second-hand and out of print copies of
books by and about the Dymock poets, try
Keith Smith Books - keith@ksbooks.demon.co.uk
78B The Homend, Ledbury, Herefordshire HR8 1BX, United Kingdom.
Telephone 01531-635336 (from outside the UK +44-1531-635336)
P&P Military Books (Pam and Peter Manley) also stock books
by and about the Dymock Poets from time to time,
and they can be e-mailed at ppmilitarybooks@aol.com.
Book Shopping in Ledbury
Ledbury Books and Maps
20 High Street, Ledbury, Herefordshire, HR8 1DS, United Kingdom.
Telephone 01531-633226 (from outside the UK +44-1531-633226)