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Dylan Thomas - The Country of the Spirit (Paperback)
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Dylan Thomas - The Country of the Spirit (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Since the Bible appears so frequently in Dylan Thomas' work, some
critics have decided that he must be a religious poet. Others,
noting blasphemous statements and certain irreligious aspects of
Thomas' personal life, contend that he was no such thing. Rushworth
M. Kidder, investigating this problem, looks below the surface of
the obviously religious imagery and discovers a more profound
poetry. The first part of this book discusses the nature of
religious poetry and the application of that term to Thomas' work;
it then develops the necessary background based on his letters and
prose comments to provide a foundation for the study; and finally
it examines the relationship between the religious aspects of his
poetry and his well-known ambiguity. The author re-defines the
vocabulary for dealing with religious imagery by establishing three
distinct categories of imagery: referential, allusive, and
thematic. This original technique is used to examine critically
Thomas' poems to show the development of his religious and poetic
thought. There are numerous close, sensitive readings of individual
poems to show how his poetry, like the Bible, teaches by parable,
speaking deliberate ambiguity rather than simple dogma. This
strategy inspired poetry that is technically complex but
thematically simple, a mode of verse that became more explicitly
religious in the poet's final years. Originally published in 1973.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
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from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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