β Scribed by R.S. Thomas
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Cover; Description; Title Page; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; THE ECHOES RETURN SLOW; The Echoes Return Slow; COUNTERPOINT; BC.; INCARNATION; CRUCIFIXION; AD.; MASS FOR HARD TIMES; Dedication; Mass for Hard Times; Stations; Adam Tempted; First Person; One Day; Requests; Nativity; Questions to the Prophet; Retired; Not Blonde; The God; The Reason; Journeys; Nuptials; Plas-yn-Rhiw; Preference; Portrait; Aside; R.I.P.; Hark; Come Down; The Refusal; Winter; Question; Tidal; Match My Moments; Healing; Tell Us; Markers; Eschatology; Circles; Monday's Child ... ; The Un-born; Sure; Could Be; Time.;R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) is one of the major poets of our time, as well as one of the finest religious poets in the English language and Wales's greatest poet. This substantial gathering of his late poems shows us the final flowering of a truly great poet still writing at the height of his powers right through his 70s and 80s. It begins with his autobiographical sequence ""The Echoes Return Slow"", which has been unavailable for many years, and goes up to ""Residues"", written immediately before his death at the age of 87. These powerful poems -- about time and history, the self, love, the.
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