Edward Thomas's Prose Truth, Mystery, and the Natural World

Ralph Pite, Professor of English, University of Bristol

Before moving to Bristol in 2007, Ralph Pite held a chair at Cardiff University. He completed his doctorate at the University of Cambridge where he was Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College and Teaching Fellow at Corpus Christi. He was Director of Bristol's Institute for Advanced Study (2013-17). His research focusses on literature's contribution to addressing the environmental emergency, both contemporary poetry in the European languages and writing from the past. This book and his study of Frost are part of that inquiry. He is now developing a reading of Romantic period literature and water-based industrial development.