R.S. Thomas identity, environment, and deity - Morgan, Christopher (Manchester University Press, 2003)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- - Elusive identities -- - Poetry as autobiography -- - 'No-one with a crown of light' -- - A poetics of environment -- - 'Green asylum': the natural world -- - 'Lenses to bear': the scientific world -- - Science and nature -- - Expanding deity -- - Theologies and beyond -- - Absence and presence
Christopher Morgan writes with critical insight on the poet R.S. Thomas. This text recontextualizes and reinterprets the poet's themes of self, nature and the search for deity and investigates Thomas's preoccupation with the philosophical and practical implications of science and technology