R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams
The Spiritual Imagination in Modern Welsh Poetry
9781786839466
Distributed for University of Wales Press
R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams
The Spiritual Imagination in Modern Welsh Poetry
A 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.
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.
312 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
University of Wales Press - Writing Wales in English
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature
Religion: Religion and Literature

Table of Contents
1Introduction: An Unfashionable Tradition
2‘Traffic-less Emmaeus’: Saunders Lewis
3‘The flashed mystery of the moving world’: Vernon Watkins
4‘Enfysu’/ Rainbowing: Euros Bowen
5Gwenallt: the Hieronymous Bosch of Wales
6Waldo Williams: King in Exile
7Bobi Jones: Court Poet to the Almighty
8Three Poets
9R.S.Thomas and the Tradition
Epilogue: the Case of Rowan Williams
2‘Traffic-less Emmaeus’: Saunders Lewis
3‘The flashed mystery of the moving world’: Vernon Watkins
4‘Enfysu’/ Rainbowing: Euros Bowen
5Gwenallt: the Hieronymous Bosch of Wales
6Waldo Williams: King in Exile
7Bobi Jones: Court Poet to the Almighty
8Three Poets
9R.S.Thomas and the Tradition
Epilogue: the Case of Rowan Williams
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