Background
He spent his early years at 15 Grosvenor Gardens, where his father befriended the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne who occasionally looked after Thomas as a toddler,reading him poetry and ballads before he slept. The Family later moved to 7 Bellevue Road, North London where he grew up. lieutenant was his father, however, who influenced him to paint.
lieutenant is understood that Thomas would enter his father"s studio at their home without permission and alter his paintings.His father would hear him and enter the room and send him back to bed.
Education
He attended Northside Primary School in Barnet, where his first poems have been recorded to have been written from the age of five.
Career
He is considered part of the Post-Aesthetic Movement. Birth and Born in Paris, he was the eldest of three to Robert Forbes and Amelie Racine. lieutenant is believed that Swinburne"s ballads had induced Thomas to write.
They spent a lot of time together in the studio and occasionally collaborated on several paintings.
lieutenant wasn"t until the age of seventeen that Thomas Forbes became serious about painting and writing Poetry. At university he met and fell in love with fellow student and poet Emily Roe-Darley.
The poem "My English Rose" (1921) is about her. In his second year he left the course and returned to London with Emily after becoming anxious and homesick.
The two married and lived together in Highgate, London to concentrate on writing and painting.
His bouts of anxiety and depression during his time at university are highlighted in the early writings of Dear Poetic Conscience. In Dear Poetic Conscience, written at university, Forbes explores the relationship between himself and as poet. lieutenant is considered by many as being in diary form rather than poetry.
Though much of the book is written in free verse, its rhythmic structure maintains its poetic characteristics.
lieutenant opens with "Look at what you"ve got yourself here, a new book for a new year."
Roe-Darley also had her own entries submitted in the final edition After the war, his house in Highgate was left badly damaged by German bomb raids and the majority of money he earned from publishing his work was spent on repairs.
lieutenant is said that he completed only a few paintings and had virtually given up on writing poetry. The only piece of work recorded by Thomas Forbes in Paris was written weeks before his death and was entitled "Is it fair, Lumiere?" (1988).
Thomas Forbes died of alcohol-related problems in Paris on 31 January 1988.
He is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.