R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) is one of the major poets of the twentieth-century, the greatest Welsh poet since Dylan Thomas, and one of the finest religious poets in the English language. 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 in his 70s and 80s. It begins with his autobiographical sequence, The Echoes Return Slow, unavailable for many years, and also includes, Counterpoint, Mass for Hard Times, No Truce With the Furies, and his final collection, Residues.
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'Like Yeats, Thomas has produced his most powerful work in his old age - reminds me of Beethoven's last quartets in its fearless exploration of the mysteries of life and death - He is the first great poet since the Metaphysicals of the 17th century to draw his images from the science of his day' - Denis Healey
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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.
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This review is from: Collected Later Poems: 1988-2000 (Paperback)
This book is a must-have for all fans of R.S. Thomas. It repints in full his last 5 collections, and is therefore a sequel to his wonderful Collected Poems 1945-1990. The first four of these later collections were published during his lifetime (he died in 2000 at the age of 87), and the last one, appropriately entitled "Residues", is a posthumous collection by his literary editor of pieces found in Thomas' desk . The astonishing thing is that his literary power remained to the end.
This book is his final gift and a wonderful one it is, too.
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