Dymock poets

The 'Dymock Poets' are generally held to have comprised Robert Frost, Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson and John Drinkwater, some of whom lived near the village in the period between 1911 and 1914.

During the First World War Edward Thomas joined the army, on 19 July 1915, with the initial rank of private.

[2] After just two years, on 9 April 1917, he was promoted to second lieutenant[2] but shortly after, at the age of thirty- eight, he was killed in the British offensive at Arras by the blast of a shell.

[2] Edward Marsh, the group's artistic and literary patron, edited the five volumes of Georgian Poetry which were published by Harold Monro.

Drinkwater had close connections with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre at the Old Rep in Station Street, which opened in 1913.

Dymock village centre, 2011
Clump of Corsican pine trees on May Hill – Robert Frost and Edward Thomas walked here, and Frost and his wife could see it from their cottage, "Little Iddens". It was here that Thomas began writing his poem "Words". [ 1 ]