Last Poems

Thomas poetry employed a simple, understated style which reliedheavily upon natural speech patterns. On 11 November 1985, Thomaswas among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey\\'s Poet\\'s Corner. The inscription, written byfellow poet Wilfred Owen, reads: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity." Thomas was described by British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes as "the father of us all".