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The Man Who Went Into the West: The Life of R. S. Thomas

Byron Rogers

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The Man Who Went Into the West won the James Tait Black prize for biography. R.S. Thomas is widely considered as one of the twentieth-century's greatest English language poets. His bitter yet beautiful collections on Wales, its landscape, people and identity, reflect a life of political and spiritual asceticism. Indeed, Thomas is a man who banned vacuum cleaners from his house on grounds of noise, whose first act on moving into an ancient cottage was to rip out the central heating, and whose attempts to seek out more authentically Welsh parishes only brought him more into contact with loud English holidaymakers. To Thomas's many admirers this will be a surprising, sometimes shocking, but at last humanising portrait of someone who wrote truly metaphysical poetry.

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Publisher
Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN-13
9781845137571
Topics
R.S. Thomas (poet)Welsh identity and landscapePoetry and literary life

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