R. S. Thomas: Identity, environment, deity

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Manchester University Press, 30 Jul 2018 - 224 halaman
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Christopher Morgan writes with keen critical insight on the controversial poet R. S. Thomas, considered to be one of the leading writers of the twentieth century. This is the first book to treat Thomas's entire oeuvre and will prove to be an indispensible guide and companion to the complete poems. The book is divided into three parts, each of which interprets the development of a major theme over Thomas's twenty-seven volumes, probing particular themes and particular poems with a meticulous insight. The book also treats Thomas's work as a complex and interrelated whole, as a body of work that comprises a single artistic achievement, and assesses that achievement within the context of an array of major literary figures from Montaigne to Seamus Heaney and Wallace Stevens. R. S. Thomas: Identity, environment, deity proves invaluable as a beginner's introduction to the Welsh poet, as a student's guide to critical thinking about the poet's work, and as a provocative new step in scholarly studies.

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Introduction
1
Part I Elusive identities
11
Poetry as autobiography
13
Noone with a crown of light
27
Part II A poetics of environment
47
the natural world
49
the scientific world
84
Science and nature
102
Part III Expanding deity
145
Theologies and beyond
147
Absence and presence
170
Bibliography
195
Further reading
202
Index
203
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Christopher Morgan has taught in the University of Aberystwyth and now teaches English in the United States

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