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R.S. Thomas: Selected Poems
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All right, I was Welsh. Does it matter?
I spoke the tongue that was passed on
To me in the place I happened to be,
A place huddled between grey walls.
Of cloud for at least half the year.
--From A Welsh Testament
When R.S. Thomas died in September 2000, he was widely regarded not only as the leading Anglo-Welsh poet of our time, but as a major world poet. His works offered challenging statements about isolation; many of the early verses focused on the people in the remote depths of rural Wales where Thomas lived and worked as a clergyman. Included in this fascinating compilation are Gifts, The Old Language, Song at the Year's Turning, and nearly 100 more. Includes an introduction to Thomas's life and work.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #1397735 in Books
- Published on: 2003-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 176 pages
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About the Author
R. S. Thomas was born in 1913. He has won numerous awards for his poetry, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1964. His autobiography, Neb, is published by J. M. Dent in September 1995. He died in 2000.
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The George Herbert of our Age
R.S. Thomas is the most significant poet since Yeats. Welsh and an Anglican Priest, Thomas captures the realities of being a Christian in the last fifty years. While his setting is very specific his message is universal. His poetry connects us to the land, to people, and to the unique mystery that is God. Not since George Herbert, another Anglo-Welsh poet and priest, has there been a poet whose writings tell us much about faith and doubt, dispair and hope.
R.S. is too little known, read even less. Start by reading "The Other."
