R.S. Thomas
Author: William Virgil Davis
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 193279249X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe theology and the poetry of Welch poet R.S. Thomas.
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Author: William Virgil Davis
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 193279249X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe theology and the poetry of Welch poet R.S. Thomas.
Author: Ronald Stuart Thomas
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRS Thomas was the greatest religious poet writing in English in the 20th century, but the 270 poems he chose for this definitive selection reveal a wide range of themes and concerns. He was a passionate Welsh patriot, but also an outspoken critic of his countrymen. His poems are an expression of his lifelong argument with himself, of his insistent search for God. In them he grapples with ideas of Welshness, with issues of technology, pollution, the decline of culture. He wrote too about love, about landscape, nature and birds. His is an urgent, prophetic and unique voice.
Author: Ronald Stuart Thomas
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKR.S. Thomas (1913-2000) is one of the major poets of the twentieth-century, the greatest Welsh poet since Dylan Thomas, and one of the finest religious poets in the English language. This substantial gathering of his late poems shows us the final flowering of a truly great poet still writing at the height of his powers in his 70s and 80s. It begins with his autobiographical sequence, The Echoes Return Slow, unavailable for many years, and also includes, Counterpoint, Mass for Hard Times, No Truce With the Furies, and his final collection, Residues.
Author: Ronald Stuart Thomas
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Published: 2013-06-28
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1848253397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of poems by Wales' most famous poet-priest, R S Thomas, is interspersed with short reflections and questions for exploration that connect the timeless poetry to the landscape that inspired it. Originally produced locally for visitors to the North Wales village and church where R S Thomas was the parish priest, its appeal extends to all who know and love the raw honesty and sparse, striking style of the poetry, and whose own faith and questions are mirrored in it. Aberdaron still welcomes streams of visitors, R S Thomas aficionados and pilgrims en route to the nearby holy island of Bardsey. This book brings the poetry alive in a fresh way and provides a pilgrim guide to the locality, along with reflections that enable armchair readers everywhere to enter more deeply into the world of the poems. All royalties will continue to go to maintaining the church at Aberdaron.
Author: Ronald Stuart Thomas
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKR. S. Thomas writes his often dour lines out of the hard landscape of the Welsh hills. His poems are so much a part of that land that farmers and their families, people he calls by name, walk inside them.
Author: Byron Rogers
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Published: 2007-07-20
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1845137574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe award-winning life story of Wales national poet and vicar R.S. Thomas is “a biography touched by genius.” (Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday) R.S. Thomas is widely considered as one of the twentieth-century’s greatest English language poets. His bitter yet beautiful collections on Wales, its landscape, people and identity, reflect a life of political and spiritual asceticism. Indeed, Thomas is a man who banned vacuum cleaners from his house on grounds of noise, whose first act on moving into an ancient cottage was to rip out the central heating, and whose attempts to seek out more authentically Welsh parishes only brought him more into contact with loud English holidaymakers. To Thomas’s many admirers this will be a surprising, sometimes shocking, but at last humanising portrait of someone who wrote truly metaphysical poetry. “A masterpiece.” —Daily Express “A striking, vivid and tender reading of the man . . . Excellent.” —Observer “Riotiously funny.” —Rowan Williams, Sunday Times “It is precisely Byron Rogers’ darkly comic sense of the ridiculous that melts the frost from the head of R.S. Thomas and humanizes a remote and bleakly beautiful writer.” —The Times “A chatty, disorderly but extremely good [biography] . . . A wonderfully comprehensive picture of the man.” —Daily Telegraph “As revealing an account of a severely private person that anyone could hope to achieve.” —Alan Brownjohn, Times Literary Supplement “Engagingly high-spirited and daring.” —Andrew Motion, Guardian Book of the Week “Charming and deftly written. . . . A very funny book.” —Literary Review “As readable and rounded a life of the man as could be written.” —Tablet Winner of the James Tait Black prize for biography
Author: Ronald Stuart Thomas
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Limited
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781852248963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a collection of previously uncollected poems by the Welsh poet.
Author: Ronald Stuart Thomas
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Limited
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9781852243616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery new book by R.S. Thomas is a revelation. There is no other voice like his, no other poet who releases the silence out of which language is wrought, and against which its truth echoes. In his eighties at the time of writing, the prophet is not wearied, but still asking difficult questions in his poems. For him, there is no truce with the furies. This collection was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.
Author: Ronald Stuart Thomas
Publisher: Dufour Editions
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9780906427965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKR.S.Thomas is one of the most important poets of our time and this is his selection taken from his six books published since the war.
Author: R.S. Thomas
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2012-04-26
Total Pages: 565
ISBN-13: 1780223080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished to mark the poet's 80th birthday, this collection confirms R. S. Thomas as our pre-eminent poet. 'This is the book I've been waiting for' Ted Hughes