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Poems / edited by Anthony Thwaite.

By: Thomas, R. S. (Ronald Stuart), 1913-2000.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Everyman, 1995Description: xi, 116 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0460878115.Subject(s): God in literature | Religious poetry, English | Philosophy and religion in literatureDDC classification: 828.914
Contents:
Poems -- A Peasant -- Affinity -- Peasant Greeting -- A Priest to his people -- Iago Prytherch -- Ire -- The Airy Tomb -- Spring Equinox -- The Welsh Hill Country -- Song for Gwydion -- The Old Language -- The Evacuee -- Depopulation of the Hills -- The Gap in the Hedge -- Cynddylan on a Tractor -- The Hill Farmer Speaks -- Death of a Peasant -- The Unborn Daughter -- Welsh landscape -- Valediction -- The labourer -- The One Furrow -- An Old Woman -- Song at the Year's Turning -- A Person from Porlock -- January -- Priest and Peasant -- The last of the Peasantry -- Border Blues -- Evans -- The Country Clergy -- Ap Huw's Testament -- Iago Prytherch -- Meet the Family -- Walter Llywarch -- Genealogy -- Ninetieth Birthday -- Too late -- Hireling -- Lore -- A Welsh Testament -- Here -- To a Young Poet -- Tramp -- Servant -- On the Farm -- Amen -- Gifts -- A Welshman at St James' Park -- Service -- In Church -- Reservoirs -- Welcome to Wales -- Kneeling -- They -- Once -- Echoes -- Digest -- The Island -- The Coming -- Madam -- Circles -- To Pay for his keep -- His Condescensions are short-lived -- Emerging -- Amen -- Poste Restante -- The Chapel -- The moon in Lleyn -- The gap -- Which -- Gone -- Pardon -- The Bright Field -- Good -- The Way of it -- The Gap -- Fishing -- Groping -- At it -- The Truce -- Dialectic -- The signpost -- Gone? -- The empty Church -- The Absence -- Covenant -- Adder -- Centuries -- Suddenly -- Arrival -- Brother -- Sonata -- The Unvanquished -- Destinations -- The Other -- Drowning -- Testimonies -- Looking Glass -- Unposted -- This One -- Truly -- A Marriage.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 828.914 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00070367
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

R. S. Thomas was a major figure in the landscape of contemporary poetry - attested by his Nobel Prize for Literature nomination. His poetry, coloured by personal experience of rural Wales, is stark but passionate.

Poems -- A Peasant -- Affinity -- Peasant Greeting -- A Priest to his people -- Iago Prytherch -- Ire -- The Airy Tomb -- Spring Equinox -- The Welsh Hill Country -- Song for Gwydion -- The Old Language -- The Evacuee -- Depopulation of the Hills -- The Gap in the Hedge -- Cynddylan on a Tractor -- The Hill Farmer Speaks -- Death of a Peasant -- The Unborn Daughter -- Welsh landscape -- Valediction -- The labourer -- The One Furrow -- An Old Woman -- Song at the Year's Turning -- A Person from Porlock -- January -- Priest and Peasant -- The last of the Peasantry -- Border Blues -- Evans -- The Country Clergy -- Ap Huw's Testament -- Iago Prytherch -- Meet the Family -- Walter Llywarch -- Genealogy -- Ninetieth Birthday -- Too late -- Hireling -- Lore -- A Welsh Testament -- Here -- To a Young Poet -- Tramp -- Servant -- On the Farm -- Amen -- Gifts -- A Welshman at St James' Park -- Service -- In Church -- Reservoirs -- Welcome to Wales -- Kneeling -- They -- Once -- Echoes -- Digest -- The Island -- The Coming -- Madam -- Circles -- To Pay for his keep -- His Condescensions are short-lived -- Emerging -- Amen -- Poste Restante -- The Chapel -- The moon in Lleyn -- The gap -- Which -- Gone -- Pardon -- The Bright Field -- Good -- The Way of it -- The Gap -- Fishing -- Groping -- At it -- The Truce -- Dialectic -- The signpost -- Gone? -- The empty Church -- The Absence -- Covenant -- Adder -- Centuries -- Suddenly -- Arrival -- Brother -- Sonata -- The Unvanquished -- Destinations -- The Other -- Drowning -- Testimonies -- Looking Glass -- Unposted -- This One -- Truly -- A Marriage.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

R. S. Thomas was born in 1913. He won numerous awards for his poetry, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1964. His autobiography, NEB, was published by J. M. Dent in September 1995. He died in 2000.