
R. S. Thomas
Identity, Environment, Deity
Christopher Morgan(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 1. December 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-7190-6249-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. -- .
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.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. -- .
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Illustrations, black & white
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
317 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-6249-0 (9780719062490)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Christopher Morgan has taught in the University of Aberystwyth and now teaches English in the United States -- .
Content
Introduction
PART ONE: Elusive Identities
1. Poetry as autobiography
2. 'No-one with a crown of light'
PART TWO: A poetics of environment
3. 'Green asylum': the natural world
4. 'Lenses to bear': the scientific world
5. Science and nature
PART THREE: Expanding deity
6. Theologies and beyond
7. Absence and presence
Bibliography
Works by R. S. Thomas
Other works cited
Further reading -- .
PART ONE: Elusive Identities
1. Poetry as autobiography
2. 'No-one with a crown of light'
PART TWO: A poetics of environment
3. 'Green asylum': the natural world
4. 'Lenses to bear': the scientific world
5. Science and nature
PART THREE: Expanding deity
6. Theologies and beyond
7. Absence and presence
Bibliography
Works by R. S. Thomas
Other works cited
Further reading -- .