A fascinating testimony of the influence Thomas has had both on his contemporaries and on subsequent generations of poets including Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, Eleanor Farjeon, W.H. Davies, Norman Nicholson, Derek Walcott, Elizabeth Jennings, P.J. Kavanaugh, Peter Porter, Alan Brownjohn, Jeremy Hooker, Leslie Norris, Elizabeth Bartlett, Kim Taplin, Andrew Motion, and others.