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OverviewA study of spirituality in modern Welsh poetry. R. S. Thomas and Rowan Williams’s great religious poetry continued a well-established Welsh tradition. This book examines spiritual resonance in late-twentieth-century Welsh poetry, including writers as diverse as Saunders Lewis, Vernon Watkins, Waldo Williams, and Bobi Jones. With careful attention to poetic form and style, M. Wynn Thomas draws out each poet’s particular theological convictions and reveals an abundance of religious reverberations within secular Welsh culture. Full Product DetailsAuthor: M. Wynn ThomasPublisher: University of Wales Press Imprint: University of Wales Press ISBN: 9781786839466ISBN 10: 1786839466 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 15 November 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of Contents1. Introduction: An Unfashionable Tradition 2. 'Traffic-less Emmaeus': Saunders Lewis 3. 'The flashed mystery of the moving world': Vernon Watkins 4. 'Enfysu'/ Rainbowing: Euros Bowen 5. Gwenallt: the Hieronymous Bosch of Wales 6. Waldo Williams: King in Exile 7. Bobi Jones: Court Poet to the Almighty 8. Three Poets 9. R.S.Thomas and the Tradition 10. Epilogue: the Case of Rowan WilliamsReviews""The range and depth of the author's knowledge of the literature around these poets, combined with his own perceptive and illuminating insights, is breathtaking. He places them in their particular Welsh historical contexts, and also in a much wider poetic framework, enabling us to see them in new and fresh ways.""-- ""Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales 2003-17"" ""The Welsh poetic tradition continues to remind us that our general language today is much more secularised than our inner lives happen to be. With an incomparable knowledge of this tradition, M. Wynn Thomas shows us what happens to belief in contemporary times when it becomes a poem. He also reveals how poems can be vehicles for a religious resonance when doctrinal or liturgical language is faint, fractured or forgotten. I finished reading and immediately started again - this is a glorious celebration of Wales, poetic attention, and the persistent riddles and rumour of God.""-- ""The Revd Dr Mark Oakley, Dean, St John's College, Cambridge"" ""With customary brilliance, M. Wynn Thomas has provided us with a fascinating assessment of 'one of the glories of recent Welsh poetry', namely the Christian content of mid- to late-twentieth-century verse in the two languages of Wales, as expressed by some of its most significant poets. Beginning with Saunders Lewis and concluding with Rowan Williams, Thomas analyses 'a 'Great Tradition' of twentieth century Welsh writing', which, however unfashionable, still speaks powerfully to a secular generation.""-- ""D. Densil Morgan, Emeritus Professor of Theology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter"" Author InformationThis book is aimed at both the academic and general, lay readership. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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