{"id":1496,"date":"2021-02-28T11:54:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T11:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2023-02-07T23:48:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T23:48:54","slug":"edward-thomas-out-of-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/articles\/edward-thomas-out-of-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Thomas: Out of Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Monday Conversation, 19 April 2021, with Andrew Hodgson and Ralph Pite<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\"><strong>&#8220;He handles the name Adelstrop as if he&#8217;s jiggling a key in a lock, expecting it to open up a feeling of connectedness&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Andrew Hodgson (Birmingham) argued that, though Thomas is firmly associated with certain kinds of English landscape, his relationship to places is often deeply unsettled. Andrew read poems including Adelstrop and The Ash Grove as the work of a poet &#8216;out of place&#8217;, restlessly seeking forms for disconnection and doubt.  <br><br>Professor Ralph Pite (Bristol) explored Thomas&#8217;s &#8216;terrestrial&#8217; and &#8216;extra-terrestrial&#8217; qualities &#8211; and the unpredictable relationship between them. Thomas emerged as a radical thinker, interested in non-proprietorial ways of belonging to the land. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Edward Thomas: Out of Place\" width=\"905\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ac6UlajXFcw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\"><strong>&#8220;Thomas leads the conversation from a fanciful dream of escape, to disillusionment and world weariness, and after that pleasure in the everyday and he becomes therefore as perplexing a figure as the woman he meets&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a 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