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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

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Religion

Christianisme

Literary Criticism

Poetry

Wales

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	15 novembre 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781786839473
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	9 Mo

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R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams

WRITING WALES IN ENGLISH

CREWserîes o Crîtîca and Schoary Studîes Genera Edîtors: Kîrstî Bohata and Danîe G. Wîîams (CREW, Swansea Unîversîty)

ThîsCREWserîes îs dedîcated to the memory o Emyr Humphreys, a major ﬁgure în the îterary cuture o modern Waes, a oundîng patron o theCentre or Research into the English Literature and Language o Wales. Grateu thanks are due to the ate Rîchard Dynevor or makîng thîs serîes possîbe.

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R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams

The Spiritual Imagination in Modern Welsh Poetry

WRITING WALES IN ENGLISH

M. Wynn Thomas

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2022

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Serîes Edîtors’ Preace Acknowedgements

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Introductîon: An Unashîonabe Tradîtîon

‘Traic-ess Emmaeus’: Saunders Lewîs

‘The ﬂashed mystery o the movîng word’: Vernon Watkîns

‘Enysu’/Raînbowîng: The Angîcan Sacramentaîsm o Euros Bowen

Gwenat: The Hîeronymus Bosch o Waes

Wado Wîîams: Kîng în Exîe

Bobî Jones: Court Poet to the Amîghty

Three Poets

R. S. Thomas and the Tradîtîon

Epîogue: The Case o Rowan Wîîams

Index

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Series Editors’ Preface

The aîm o thîs serîes, sînce îts oundîng în 2004 by Proessor M. Wynn Thomas, îs to pubîsh schoary and crîtîca work by estabîshed specîaîsts and younger schoars that reﬂects the rîchness and var-îety o the Engîsh-anguage îterature o modern Waes. The studîes pubîshed so ar have ampy demonstrated that concepts, modes and dîscourses current în the best contemporary studîes can îumînate aspects o Wesh cuture, and have aso oregrounded the potentîa o the Wesh exampe to draw attentîon to themes that are oten negected or margînaîsed în angophone cutura studîes. The serîes deﬁnes and expores that whîch dîstînguîshes Waes’s angophone îterature, chaenges crîtîcs to deveop methods and approaches adequate to the task o înterpretîng Wesh cuture, and învîtes îts readers to ocate the process o wrîtîng Waes în Engîsh wîthîn com-paratîve and transnatîona contexts.

Proessor Kîrstî Bohata and Proessor Danîe G. Wîîams Foundîng Edîtor: Proessor M. Wynn Thomas (2004–15)

CREW (Centre or Research into the EnglishLiterature and Language o Wales) Swansea Unîversîty

I’m teulu, mawr a mân

‘To multiply the harbours does not reduce the sea’ – Emily Dickinson

‘God made me – Master – I didn’t be – myself. I don’t know how it was done.’ – Emily Dickinson

Sacrament sicr ym modd ei sain ‘There is certain sacrament by means of its sound’ – Euros Bowen

‘Poetry is like the line Christ drew in the sand, it creates a pause in the action, a freezeframe moment of concentration, a focus where our power to concentrate is concentrated back upon ourselves’ – Seamus Heaney