Edward Thomas’ “There’s Nothing Like the Sun”: The poet’s verse has the heightened perception of a great haiku. Courtesy of Hulton Archive/Getty Images/Wikimedia Commons I came to “There’s Nothing Like the Sun,” and Edward Thomas’ work in general, quite late, thanks to some of my more inane prejudices.
The image I’d developed of Thomas’ poems (without having read many of them) didn’t hold much appeal, not for somebody like me, who has lived in cities all his life. I’ve always loved best the American poets who have been most tuned in to life in those places: Williams and O’Hara in particular. Thomas’ sensibility initially seemed to me the product of “cottage England.”
His interest in the natural world seemed … well, sort of unrelenting. Also, though Thomas is often linked to his friend and influence Robert Frost, for me his speech lacks Frost’s idiomatic salt. I found “There’s Nothing Like the Sun” more or less accidentally then, while flipping through an interview with James Wright 30 years after it was published. These lines have something of the heightened perception of a great haiku. In Focus - The American West, 150 Years Ago. In the 1860s and 70s, photographer Timothy O'Sullivan created some of the best-known images in American History.
After covering the U.S. Civil War, (many of his photos appear in this earlier series), O'Sullivan joined a number of expeditions organized by the federal government to help document the new frontiers in the American West. The teams were composed of soldiers, scientists, artists, and photographers, and tasked with discovering the best ways to take advantage of the region's untapped natural resources. O'Sullivan brought an amazing eye and work ethic, composing photographs that evoked the vastness of the West.
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