Description: 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.Brief description: M. Wynn Thomas is professor of English and Emyr Humphreys Professor of Welsh Writing in English at Swansea University in Wales. He is the author of several books, including The History of Wales in Twelve Poems and A Map of Love: Twelve Welsh Poems of Romance, Desire and Devotion, also published by University of Wales Press.
Review Quotes: "The range and depth of the author's knowledge of the literature around these poets, combined with his own perceptive and illuminating insights, is breathtaking. He places them in their particular Welsh historical contexts, and also in a much wider poetic framework, enabling us to see them in new and fresh ways."-- "Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales 2003-17"