inspiration from the lyrics of John Keats. She was a classic poet in her prosodic regularity and in her continuing attention to Greek subjects. She was romantic in her emphasis on the self, although an aura of sentiment and pathos kept her from developing a constructive romantic position.... She was one of the first poets to capture successfully the excitement (the "ardent bulbs") of the modern city, and one of the most consistent in crying out against the inroads of the dollar sign on American culture." Publications A New Year's Masque and Other PoemsBoston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., 1885. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1885. The Round Year. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., 1886. Lyrics and Sonnets. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., 1887. Babes of the Year. New York: F.A. Stokes, 1888. Babes of the Nations. New York: F.A. Stokes, 1889. Heaven and Earth (1889) The Inverted Torch. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., 1890. Fair Shadow Land. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., 1893. In Sunshine Land. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., 1895. In the Young World. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., 1896. A Winter Swallow, With Other Verse. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. The Dancers. Boston: R.G. Badger, 1903. Cassia, and other Verse. Boston: R.G. Badger, 1905. Children of Christmas. Boston: R.G. Badger, 1907. The Guest at the Gate. Boston: R.G. Badger, 1909. The Flower from the Ashes. Portland, ME: T.B. Mosher, 1915. The White Messenger, and Other War Poems. Boston: R.G. Badger, 1915. Selected Poems, ed. Jessie Belle Rittenhouse ed. New York, London: Harper Brothers, 1926. References For an essay on Thomas by Kevin De Ornellas see Early American Nature Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia by Daniel Patterson (Editor), Greenwood Press (2007), . Notes External links Works by Edith Matilda Thomas at Harvard University Library (including 7 "from old catalog") 1854 births 1925 deaths 19th-century American poets 20th-century American poets American women poets People from Ashtabula County, Ohio 20th-century American women writers 19th-century American women writers Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century