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By R.S. Thomas

ISBN-10: 1852246472

ISBN-13: 9781852246471

ISBN-10: 1852246480

ISBN-13: 9781852246488

R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) is among the significant poets of our time, in addition to one of many most interesting non secular poets within the English language and Wales's maximum poet. This giant accumulating of his overdue poems exhibits us the ultimate flowering of a very nice poet nonetheless writing on the top of his powers all over his 70s and 80s. It starts together with his autobiographical series "The Echoes go back Slow", which has been unavailable for a few years, and is going as much as "Residues", written instantly ahead of his demise on the age of 87. those robust poems -- approximately time and heritage, the self, love, the desktop, the pass and prayer -- disguise all of his significant parts of wondering. this is often R.S. Thomas in a wintry weather gentle, his fury focused on the inhumanity of guy and smooth expertise, his gaze absorbed by way of the God he felt in Nature, yet discovering nourishment in 'waste places'. while he writes with resigned feeling and monstrous perception, in addition to grim humour and playful irony, of isolation, getting older, marriage and 'love's shining greenhouses'. For Thomas, 'Poetry is that / which arrives on the mind / when it comes to the heart.'

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