I first gave my attention to the topic of this book while writing a Ph.D. thesis in the early 1970s at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and some material survives from that project. The book also incorporates versions, somewhat revised, of a number of published articles. ‘From a Georgian Poetic to the “Romantic Primitivism” of Robert Graves and D. H. Lawrence’ appeared in Studies in Romanticism (Winter 1983), ‘The “Poetical Character” of Edward Thomas’ in Essays in Criticism (July, 1973), and ‘Edward Thomas: A Special Case?’ and ‘Ted Hughes. Medicine Man and Maker’ in Meridian. The La Trobe University English Review (May 1983 and May 1989 respectively). I am grateful to the editors of these journals, and to the Trustees of Boston University in the case of the Studies in Romanticism article, for permission to reprint this material. Two further articles from which more minor adaptations have been made are cited in notes. Acknowledgement is also due to the King's School, Canterbury, for kindly allowing the use of quotations from manuscript letters by W. H. Davies to Edward Thomas, held in its library.