R.S. Thomas : serial obsessive / M. Wynn Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, M. Wynn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, R. S. (Ronald Stuart), 1913-2000.

Thomas, R. S.

Poets, Welsh.

Physical Description:

x, 335 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2013.

Summary:

Published to mark the centenary of the 'ogre of Wales', this volume deals with the idées fixes that serially possessed the fiercely intense imagination of R.S. Thomas: lago Prytherch, Wales, his family and, of course, a vexingly elusive deity. Here, these familiar obsessions are set in several unusual contexts that bring Thomas's poetry into startling new relief. The war poetry is considered alongside the poet's early relationship to the English topographical tradition; comparisons with Borges and Levertov underline the international dimensions of the poetry's concerns; the intriguing 'secret code' of some of Thomas's Welsh-language references is cracked; and his painting-poems (including several hitherto unpublished) are brought centre-stage from the peripheries to which they have been routinely relegated. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 War Poet 13

2 For Wales, See Landscape 37

3 The Disappearing Clergyman 67

4 Son of Saunders 93

5 Family Matters 117

6 The Leper of Abercuawg 147

7 Irony in the Soul: R. S.(ocrates) Thomas 171

8 'Time's Changeling' 193

9 'The fantastic side of God' 219

10 Transatlantic Relations 241

11 'The fast dipping brush' 263

12 'The brush's piety' 293.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0708326137

9780708326138

OCLC:

810116632

Publisher Number:

99953721861