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Article: The poetry of R.S. Thomas.(R. S. Thomas: Identity, Environment, and Deity)(Book Review)
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- Contemporary Review
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- January 1, 2004
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R. S. Thomas: Identity, Environment, and Deity. Christopher Morgan. Manchester University Press. [pounds sterling]40.00. 209 pages. ISBN 0-7190-6248-9.
On the occasion of R. S. Thomas's death in September 2000, the then Archbishop of Wales (now Archbishop of Canterbury), Rowan Williams, said of him: 'In religious circles he has been as influential as T. S. Eliot'. Christopher Morgan offers an excellent introduction to the powerful and complex religiousness that underlies Thomas's work. 'More than any other recent poet', Mr. Morgan asserts, he 'reinvigorates the genre of English-language religious poetry, reshaping it to reflect contemporary spiritual experience'. ...