Dr Andrew Webb is a Lecturer in English Literature at Bangor University, North Wales, having finished his PhD at Warwick University in 2010.

"This is an engagingly written, original, and intellectually rigorous book of criticism. Webb writes with such insight because he is alive to the many contexts Edward Thomas maps into, but never lets them overwhelm the singularity of Thomas's voice."--Patrick McGuinness, University of Oxford

• Introduction Chapter One World Literary Studies and Britain Chapter Two The Reception of Edward Thomas Chapter Three Welsh Literatures in their Political and Economic Contexts Chapter Four Edward Thomas and the Welsh Cultural Tradition Chapter Five Edward Thomas and English 'as a foreign tongue' Chapter Six Edward Thomas and England's failed locales