Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
R. S. Thomas - Serial Obsessive — Serial Obsessive
R. S. Thomas - Serial Obsessive — Serial Obsessive
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Astudiaeth sy'n gosod gwaith bardd crefyddol o bwys a ganai ar ddiwedd yr ugeinfed ganrif mewn goleuni trawiadol newydd. Gellir ystyried R. S. Thomas yn fardd rhyfel 'amgen', yn heddychwr, myfyriwr celf, a chofiannydd arbrofol cyfoes.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
The study places the work of a major religious poet of the late twentieth century in a number of striking new perspectives that allow him to be viewed for the first time as an 'alternative' war poet, a conscience-stricken pacifist, a jealously opportunistic student of art, and an experimental biographer of the modern soul.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780708326138
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780708326138
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- R. S. Thomas - Serial Obsessive — Serial Obsessive
- Sub Title
- Serial Obsessive
- Awdur / Author
- Thomas, M.Wynn
- Current Price ex VAT
- £19.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £19.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2013-02-04
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 304 pages
- Size
- 156 × 234 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Astudiaethau a Thestunau Llenyddol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Literary Studies and Texts (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Astudiaethau Llenyddol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Literary Studies (in English)
Cynnwys / Table of Contents
Introduction 1 War Poet 2 For Wales See Landscape 3 The disappearing clergyman 4 Son of Saunders 5 Family Matters 6 The leper of Abercuawg 7 Irony in the soul: R. (S)ocrates Thomas 8 Time’s Changeling 9 The Fantastic Side of God 10 Transatlantic Relations 11 The Fast-Dipping Brush 12 The brush’s piety
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
M Wynn Thomas is a professor of English and Director of CREW at the University of Swansea.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Published to mark the centenary of the sometime ‘ogre of Wales’, this volume (by the executor of his unpublished literary estate) deals with the idées fixes that serially possessed his fiercely intense imagination: Iago Prytherch, Wales, his family, and of course a vexingly elusive Deity. Here, these familiar obsessions are set in several unusual contexts that bring his poetry into startling new relief: his war poetry is considered alongside his early poetry’s relationship to English topographical tradition; comparisons with Borges and Levertov underline the international dimensions of his concerns; the intriguing ‘secret code’ of some of his Welsh-language references is cracked; and his painting-poems (including several hitherto unpublished) are moved centre stage from the peripheries to which they’ve been routinely relegated.
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