Saturday's Silence
R. S. Thomas and Paschal Reading
Author(s) Richard McLauchlan
Language: English
Genre(s): Literary Criticism
Series: Writing Wales in English
- November 2016 · 240 pages ·216x138mm
- · Hardback - 9781783169207
- · eBook - pdf - 9781783169214
- · eBook - epub - 9781783169221
About The Book
Endorsements
‘R. S. Thomas’s terse and condensed poetic voice is inflected more than some readers realise by a deep hinterland of theological and philosophical reflection. This creative new reading of his poetry locates him very specifically in what is not only a theological but a liturgical place, the intense but fertile darkness of the day between Good Friday and Easter – ‘a descent into hell’ that is also a retrieval and transformation of the experiences of loss, protest and failure. This is a subtle, careful and persuasive interpretation of one of our major modern poets.’