✦ LIBER ✦

Collected Later Poems 1988-2000

✍ Scribed by R.S. Thomas

Book ID: 110950621
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 119 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781780370224
ASIN: B009Z2FMC0

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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 machine, the Cross and prayer — cover all of his major areas of questioning. This is R.S. Thomas in a winter light, his fury concentrated on the inhumanity of man and modern technology, his gaze absorbed by the God he felt in Nature, but finding nourishment in 'waste places'. At the same time he writes with resigned feeling and immense insight, as well as grim humour and playful irony, of isolation, ageing, marriage and 'love's shining greenhouses'. For Thomas, 'Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.'

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Collected Later Poems 1988-2000

✍ R.S. Thomas 📂 Fiction 📅 2012;2011 🏛 Bloodaxe Books 🌐 und ⚖ 107 KB 👁 1 views

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

Collected Later Poems

✍ Middleton, Christopher; 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Carcanet 🌐 English ⚖ 157 KB

Overview: August Kleinzahler says, ‘Christopher Middleton is, and remains, a shocking man. One hardly knows where to begin...’ There are few risks Middleton will not take in his poems. For six decades and more he has uncovered new dimensions in language. The last decade has been one of continuous di

Collected Later Poems

✍ Hecht, Anthony 📂 Fiction 📅 2005 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 3 MB

Anthony Hecht, now in his eightieth year, has earned a place alongside such poets as W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, and Elizabeth Bishop. Here under one cover are his three most recent collections--_The Transparent Man, Flight Among the Tombs,_ and _The Darkness and the Light_. The perfect companion to

Collected Later Poems

✍ Middleton, Christopher; 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Carcanet 🌐 English ⚖ 191 KB

Later Poems

✍ William Butler Yeats 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Barnes & Noble 🌐 English ⚖ 117 KB

Yeats assembled this volume in 1922, the year before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His selected work here includes poems from _The Wind among the Reeds, The Old Age of Queen Maeve, Baile and Aillinn, In the Seven Woods, The Shadowy Waters, The Green Helmet, Responsibilities, The Wild Swans

Later Poems

✍ Carman, Bliss 📂 Fiction 📅 0 🌐 English ⚖ 334 KB