R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams: the spiritual imagination in modern Welsh poetry

"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 Bo...

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1. Verfasser: Thomas, Meurig Wynn 1944- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cardiff University of Wales Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Writing Wales in English
CREW series of critical and scholarly studies
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Zusammenfassung:"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 Jones. Examining this body of work in detail, the present study demonstrates how the different theological outlooks of the poets was reflected in their choice of form, style and vocabulary, highlighting a literary culture that was highly unusual in its rejection of a prevailing secularisation in the UK, Western Europe and the USA. 1. 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 Williams"
Beschreibung:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Beschreibung:292 Seiten
ISBN:9781786839466

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