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The Man Who Went into the West
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 ...
R. S. Thomas
At his death in 2000, R. S. Thomas was widely considered to be one of the major poets of the English-speaking world, having been nominated for the Nobel prize for Literature. With Dylan Thomas, R. S. Thomas is probably Wales's best-known poet internationally.Tony Brown provides an introduction to R. S. Thomas's life and work, as well as new perspectives and insights for those already familiar with the poetry. His approach is broadly chronological, interweaving life and work in order to evaluate Thomas's poetic achievement. In addition to presenting a full discussion of Thomas's poetry, and its movements over time between personal, spiritual and political concerns, Tony Brown also examines Thomas's contribution to the culture of Wales, not just in his writing but also his political interventions and activism on behalf of Welsh language and culture.
R. S. Thomas
R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) is the most recognizable literary figure in twentieth-century Wales. His controversial politics and public personality made him a cultural icon during his life, and the merits of his poetry have continued to be debated in the years after his death. Yet these debates have too-often circled familiar ground, returning to the assumed personality of the poet or to the received narrative of his experience. Even the best studies have focused almost exclusively on ideas and themes. As a result, the poetry itself has frequently been marginalized. This book argues that Thomas’s reputation must be grounded in poetry, not personality. Unlike traditional literary biography, whi...
R.S. Thomas
Published to mark the centenary of the sometime ‘ogre of Wales’, this volume (by the executor of his unpublished literary estate) deals with the idées fixes that serially possessed his fiercely intense imagination: Iago Prytherch, Wales, his family, and of course a vexingly elusive Deity. Here, these familiar obsessions are set in several unusual contexts that bring his poetry into startling new relief: his war poetry is considered alongside his early poetry’s relationship to English topographical tradition; comparisons with Borges and Levertov underline the international dimensions of his concerns; the intriguing ‘secret code’ of some of his Welsh-language references is cracked; and his painting-poems (including several hitherto unpublished) are moved centre stage from the peripheries to which they’ve been routinely relegated.
ICT for Education, Development, and Social Justice
This book explores the role of ICT in education, development, and social justice globally. It presents case studies on using ICT for sustainable development and social change. Objectives include analyzing backgrounds and contexts, appreciating international dimensions, and exploring ICT's potential to promote social justice.
Peak District (Collins New Naturalist Library)
The Peak District, Britain’s first national park, is a land of great natural beauty, visited by millions of people every year.
Assembly Handbook
The advent of the new Assembly for Wales will be impossible to ignore. Its scope will impact on everyone who lives and works in Wales. It will not only affect individuals, but will also have a major effect on corporate Wales, including both large and small private businesses, voluntary organizations and the media, as well as the public sector. This text explains how the National Assembly for Wales will work. It looks at how it will be structured, what its powers will be and how one's voice can be heard. It also explains the relationship with Westminster and states who's who in the new regime.
