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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
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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...
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Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
2023
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