Collected poems, 1945-1990
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A collection of R.S. Thomas's poems, published to mark his 80th birthday. Many of his themes are prophetic to issues such as technology and our use of it to destroy the natural world; and the search... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1857993543
ISBN13:9781857993547
Release Date:September 1995
Publisher:Phoenix Giant
Length:400 Pages
Weight:2.40 lbs.
Dimensions:9.1" x 1.7" x 6.2"
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Wales and Christianity
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Welshman R.S. Thomas is the author of some of the most memorable religious poetry of the century. As a clergyman in rural Wales Thomas had to face a country and a church in decline; this inspired poetry of an austere beauty. The poem "The Bright Field" seems to me to capture the essence of Thomas' poetry: "I have seen the sun break through / to illuminate a small field / for a while, and gone my way / and forgotten it. But that was the pearl / of great price, the one field that had / the treasure in it. I realize now / that I must give all that I have / to possess it. Life is not hurrying // on to a receding future, nor hankering after / an imagined past. It is the turning / aside like Moses to the miracle / of the burning bush, to a brightness / that seemed as transitory as your youth / once, but is the eternity that awaits you."
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