R.S. Thomas: Poetry and TheologyThis volume celebrates the work of the Welsh poet R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) and illuminates the theological implications of this famous twentieth-century poet-priest's pilgrimage. By providing detailed readings of individual poems, Davis explores the depth and imagination of Thomas's profound theological vision. |
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... images of reflection , and he uses these images in several ways simultaneously.16 Reflection suggests contemplation , distortion , and meditation as well as the throwing back , shadow - like , as pic- tures or echoes , of images or ...
... images of reflection , and he uses these images in several ways simultaneously.16 Reflection suggests contemplation , distortion , and meditation as well as the throwing back , shadow - like , as pic- tures or echoes , of images or ...
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... images . Such images are , as he himself has acknowledged , one of his obsessions.1 Even if such “ reflec- tions " are as old as poetry itself , Thomas has worked his own very modern and quite sophisticated variations on them ...
... images . Such images are , as he himself has acknowledged , one of his obsessions.1 Even if such “ reflec- tions " are as old as poetry itself , Thomas has worked his own very modern and quite sophisticated variations on them ...
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... image . He did so by breathing on the mirror . In terms of this trope , God , in creating man by breathing him in the mirror , by breathing into him the breath of life , simultaneously oblit- erates or replaces his own image . In its ...
... image . He did so by breathing on the mirror . In terms of this trope , God , in creating man by breathing him in the mirror , by breathing into him the breath of life , simultaneously oblit- erates or replaces his own image . In its ...
Contents
R S Thomas and Wallace Stevens | 143 |
Conclusion | 157 |
Bibliography | 199 |
Copyright | |
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