The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas
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- Synopsis
- The award-winning life story of Wales national poet and vicar R.S. Thomas is “a biography touched by genius.” (Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday)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.“A masterpiece.” —Daily Express“A striking, vivid and tender reading of the man . . . Excellent.” —Observer“Riotiously funny.” —Rowan Williams, Sunday Times“It is precisely Byron Rogers’ darkly comic sense of the ridiculous that melts the frost from the head of R.S. Thomas and humanizes a remote and bleakly beautiful writer.” —The Times“A chatty, disorderly but extremely good [biography] . . . A wonderfully comprehensive picture of the man.” —Daily Telegraph“As revealing an account of a severely private person that anyone could hope to achieve.” —Alan Brownjohn, Times Literary Supplement“Engagingly high-spirited and daring.” —Andrew Motion, Guardian Book of the Week“Charming and deftly written. . . . A very funny book.” —Literary Review“As readable and rounded a life of the man as could be written.” —TabletWinner of the James Tait Black prize for biography
- Copyright:
- 2006
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 352 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781845137571
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781845132507
- Publisher:
- Quarto Publishing Group USA
- Date of Addition:
- 02/05/25
- Copyrighted By:
- Byron Rogers
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Religion and Spirituality
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.