Forever England
IN her memoir of life with her poet husband, Edward, Under Storm’s Wing, Helen Thomas recalled the time when the American poet Robert Frost came to Dymock with his family and joined in the life of a creative hub. ‘We spent those happy weeks in the open air, in the evenings sitting with friends and talking… for our friend was a poet, Robert Frost. Between him and Edward a most wonderful friendship grew up.’
Edward (who was to die in combat in the First World War) had been earning money to support his young and growing family by writing literary journalism, but, after meeting Frost, he was destined to become a successful poet. Between April 1911 and September 1916, the beguiling corner of Gloucestershire at Dymock, on
