Byron Rogers
Autor/a de The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S.Thomas
Sobre l'autor
Byron Rogers writes for The Sunday Telegraph, the Guardian, Saga magazine and most other publications.
Crèdit de la imatge: The Independent
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Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1942
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Bancyfelin, Wales
- Educació
- Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen
Oxford University (University College) - Organitzacions
- Guardian
Membres
Ressenyes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 10
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 288
- Popularitat
- #81,142
- Valoració
- 4.2
- Ressenyes
- 11
- ISBN
- 28
- Preferit
- 1
It seems like Thomas found it very difficult to express his emotions in any way other than through his poetry. This caused many problems, leaving his only child extremely bitter, for instance, and alienating many who he could not engage with on an intellectual front. Yet many of his parishioners found him endlessly patient and considerate in times of trouble, illness or bereavement. And so it goes on, developing a picture of a compicated man, full of contradictions, in search of something he never really found, that he probably couldn't name. Perhaps closest to it when bird watching, alone in a wild space.
Rogers, who knew Thomas, also offers helpful insight into the poetry and the social context of Wales in Thomas's lifetime, necessary to anything but a superficial understanding of the man. I strongly recommend that anyone interested in R.S. Thomas, the man or the poet, read this - it won't be a chore.… (més)