Author: William Virgil DavisPublisher: Baylor University Press
ISBN: 193279249X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The theology and the poetry of Welch poet R.S. Thomas.
R.S. Thomas
Author: William Virgil DavisPublisher: Baylor University Press
ISBN: 193279249X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The theology and the poetry of Welch poet R.S. Thomas.
A Choice of Wordsworth's Verse
Author: William WordsworthPublisher: Quintessence Publishing (IL)
ISBN: 9780571092598
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Wordsworth and Welsh Romanticism
Author: James ProtheroPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443848867
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Popular anthologies hold that the Romantic Era in Great Britain ended promptly in 1832 and that the early Twentieth Century was the time of Modernism and the rejection of the Romantic in British letters. However, in Wales, just the opposite was true. This study traces the work of poets and novelists in Wales in the early- to mid-Twentieth Century who all found their poetic master to be William Wordsworth. In the early part of the century, W. H. Davies, John Cowper Powys and Huw Menai – a tramp, a mystic novelist and a coal miner – produce novels and poetry with Wordsworth as their acknowledged master. By mid-century, Idris Davies, a coal miner turned teacher, R. S. Thomas, an Anglican priest, and Leslie Norris, another teacher, are writing in the “mountainous shadow of William Wordsworth.” While the literary lights of London are leading the Modernist revolution, in Wales, the inspiration is still the English poet, Wordsworth. This study will illuminate this flare up of Romanticism, and show the way in which Romanticism re-emerges from unexpected quarters.
Chicorel Index to Poetry in Anthologies and Collections in Print
Author: Marietta ChicorelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are
Author: Paul H. FryPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300145411
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Where others have oriented Wordsworth towards ideas of transcendence, nature worship, or - more recently - political repression, Paul H. Fry argues that underlying all this is a more fundamental insight - Wordsworth is most astonished not that the world he experiences has any particular qualities, but rather that it simply exists.
R. S. Thomas
Author: Daniel WestoverPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708324126
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
In R.S. Thomas - A Stylistic Biography, Daniel Westover traces Thomas's poetic development over six decades, demonstrating how the complex interior of the poet manifests itself in the continually shifting style of his poems.
Language and Relationship in Wordsworth's Writing
Author: Michael BaronPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317898842
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) needs little introduction as the central figure in Romantic poetry and a crucial influence in the development of poetry generally. This broad-ranging survey redefines the variety of his writing by showing how it incorporates contemporary concepts of language difference and the ways in which popular and serious literature were compared and distinguished during this period. It discusses many of Wordsworth's later poems, comparing his work with that of his regional contemporaries as well as major writers such as Scott. The key theme of relationship, both between characters within poems and between poet and reader, is explored through Wordsworth's construction of community and his use of power relationships. A serious discussion of the place of sexual feeling in his writing is also included.
Chameleon Poet
Author: S. J. PerryPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191510998
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
For many decades, R.S. Thomas has been portrayed according to terms that he himself helped to define. Drawing on the poet's status as a passionate defender of the Welsh nation, scholars have followed his lead in emphasising the Welsh credentials and dimensions of his work, tacitly affirming his chosen cultural identity. Chameleon Poet, however, goes against the grain of previous studies by revealing Thomas as profoundly indebted to the English literary canon. Ultimately, Thomas emerges as a classic example of what Keats famously described as the 'chameleon poet', and through this prism S.J. Perry illuminates the various dimensions of his relationship with the literary tradition. Through detailed consideration of Thomas's life and writing and extensive archival research into his reading and correspondence, Perry examines Thomas's early immersion in the work of the English Romantics, through to his discovery of Irish and Scottish writing, his response to key poetic figures, such as Herbert, Tennyson, Edward Thomas and T.S. Eliot, his involvement with the influential journal Critical Quarterly, which inspired a creative dialogue with esteemed contemporaries like Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin, and his late engagement with the traditions of the elegy as conceived within Thomas Hardy's Poems of 1912-13. As well as suggesting new readings and associations, this groundbreaking exposition of R.S. Thomas's art forms part of a wider investigation into the nature of the British poetic tradition and archipelagic identity, showing how Thomas's Welshness was in fact a hybrid construct, emerging from his imaginative interaction with the literary cultures of England, Scotland and Ireland as much as those of his homeland.
A Selection from the Sonnets of William Wordsworth
Author: William WordsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth
Author: Richard GravilPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019101964X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-eight original essays, by an international team of scholar-critics, to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. Nineteen essays explore the highlights of a long career systematically, giving special prominence to the lyric Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads and the Poems in Two Volumes and to the blank verse poet of 'The Recluse'. Most of the other essays return to the poetry while exploring other dimensions of the life and work of the major Romantic poet. The result is a dialogic exploration of many major texts and problems in Wordsworth scholarship. This uniquely comprehensive handbook is structured so as to present, in turn, Wordsworth's life, career, and networks; aspects of the major lyrical and narrative poetry; components of 'The Recluse'; his poetical inheritance and his transformation of poetics; the variety of intellectual influences upon his work, from classical republican thought to modern science; his shaping of modern culture in such fields as gender, landscape, psychology, ethics, politics, religion and ecology; and his 19th- and 20th-century reception-most importantly by poets, but also in modern criticism and scholarship.