R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams: The Spiritual Imagination in Modern Welsh Poetry: University of Wales Press - Writing Wales in English
Autor M. Wynn Thomasen Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2023
R. S. Thomas and Rowan Williams’s great religious poetry continued a well-established Welsh tradition. This book examines spiritual resonance in late-twentieth-century Welsh poetry, including writers as diverse as Saunders Lewis, Vernon Watkins, Waldo Williams, and Bobi Jones. With careful attention to poetic form and style, M. Wynn Thomas draws out each poet’s particular theological convictions and reveals an abundance of religious reverberations within secular Welsh culture.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781786839466
ISBN-10: 1786839466
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: University of Wales Press
Colecția University of Wales Press
Seria University of Wales Press - Writing Wales in English
ISBN-10: 1786839466
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: University of Wales Press
Colecția University of Wales Press
Seria University of Wales Press - Writing Wales in English
Notă biografică
M. Wynn Thomas is professor of English and the Emyr Humphreys professor of Welsh writing in English at Swansea University.
Cuprins
1Introduction: An Unfashionable Tradition
2‘Traffic-less Emmaeus’: Saunders Lewis
3‘The flashed mystery of the moving world’: Vernon Watkins
4‘Enfysu’/ Rainbowing: Euros Bowen
5Gwenallt: the Hieronymous Bosch of Wales
6Waldo Williams: King in Exile
7Bobi Jones: Court Poet to the Almighty
8Three Poets
9R.S.Thomas and the Tradition
Epilogue: the Case of Rowan Williams
2‘Traffic-less Emmaeus’: Saunders Lewis
3‘The flashed mystery of the moving world’: Vernon Watkins
4‘Enfysu’/ Rainbowing: Euros Bowen
5Gwenallt: the Hieronymous Bosch of Wales
6Waldo Williams: King in Exile
7Bobi Jones: Court Poet to the Almighty
8Three Poets
9R.S.Thomas and the Tradition
Epilogue: the Case of Rowan Williams
Recenzii
"The range and depth of the author’s knowledge of the literature around these poets, combined with his own perceptive and illuminating insights, is breathtaking. He places them in their particular Welsh historical contexts, and also in a much wider poetic framework, enabling us to see them in new and fresh ways."
"The Welsh poetic tradition continues to remind us that our general language today is much more secularised than our inner lives happen to be. With an incomparable knowledge of this tradition, M. Wynn Thomas shows us what happens to belief in contemporary times when it becomes a poem. He also reveals how poems can be vehicles for a religious resonance when doctrinal or liturgical language is faint, fractured or forgotten. I finished reading and immediately started again – this is a glorious celebration of Wales, poetic attention, and the persistent riddles and rumour of God."
"With customary brilliance, M. Wynn Thomas has provided us with a fascinating assessment of 'one of the glories of recent Welsh poetry', namely the Christian content of mid- to late-twentieth-century verse in the two languages of Wales, as expressed by some of its most significant poets. Beginning with Saunders Lewis and concluding with Rowan Williams, Thomas analyses 'a ‘Great Tradition’ of twentieth century Welsh writing', which, however unfashionable, still speaks powerfully to a secular generation."