Acting
R. S. Thomas, “Acting” from The Poems of R. S. Thomas. Copyright © Kunjana Thomas 2001. Reprinted by permission of University of Arizona Press.
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Poet R. S. Thomas 1913–2000
POET’S REGION Wales
Subjects Living, Marriage & Companionship, Relationships, Love, Men & Women, Arts & Sciences, Theater & Dance, Infatuation & Crushes, Break-ups & Vexed Love, Realistic & Complicated
Biography
Recognized as one of the leading poets of modern Wales, R. S. Thomas writes about the people of his country in a style that some critics have compared to that nation's harsh and rugged terrain. Using few of the common poetic devices, Thomas's work exhibits what Alan Brownjohn of the New Statesman calls a "cold, telling purity of language." James F. Knapp of Twentieth Century Literature explains that "the poetic world which . . .
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SUBJECT Living, Marriage & Companionship, Relationships, Love, Men & Women, Arts & Sciences, Theater & Dance, Infatuation & Crushes, Break-ups & Vexed Love, Realistic & Complicated
POET’S REGION Wales
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