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R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams : The Spiritual Imagination in Modern Welsh Poetry
M.Wynn Thomas
Swansea University Author: M.Wynn Thomas
Abstract
The great religious poetry of R. S. Thomas and the poetry of the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is rooted in a remarkable late-twentieth-century tradition of spiritual poetry in Wales that includes figures as different as Saunders Lewis and Vernon Watkins, Waldo Williams and Bobi Jon...
| ISBN: | 9781786839473 |
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Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
2023
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70874 |
| Abstract: |
The great religious poetry of R. S. Thomas and the poetry of the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is rooted in a remarkable late-twentieth-century tradition of spiritual poetry in Wales that includes figures as different as Saunders Lewis and Vernon Watkins, Waldo Williams and Bobi Jones. Examining this body of work in detail, the present study demonstrates how the different theological outlooks of the poets was reflected in their choice of form, style and vocabulary, highlighting a literary culture that was highly unusual in its rejection of a prevailing secularisation in the UK, Western Europe and the USA. |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |