R. S. Thomas, Desperado — Cultural Warrior of Wales

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Astudiaeth eang ei chwmpas ac arloesol o un o brif feirdd crefyddol yr ugeinfed ganrif, rhyfelwr geiriau diflino ar ran hunaniaeth ddiwylliannol a gwleidyddol Cymru sydd dan fygythiad.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

A wide-ranging and ground breaking study of one of the twentieth-century's major religious poets, an indefatigable word-warrior on behalf of the threatened cultural and political identity of Wales.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Light 'thick as honey among the grasses' 3. The Real Manafon? 4. Bury my heart at Abercuawg 5. Cultural Warrior 6. The dislocated imagination: R.S. Thomas and Geoffrey Hill 7. Unfamiliar Affections 8. The spoor of the spirit: R.S.Thomas’s Apostolic Successor 9. Coda: R.S.Thomas, Desperado

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

M. Wynn Thomas, FBA, FLSW, is Emeritus Professor of English, Swansea University and twice Visiting Professor at Harvard. He is the author of thirty books on Walt Whitman and the two literary cultures of Wales, including R. S. Thomas: Serial Obsessive (2013) and the award-winning The History of Wales in Twelve Poems (2017). He is the executor of R. S. Thomas’s unpublished literary estate.