{"product_id":"9780708321935","title":"R. S. Thomas","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt his death in 2000, R. S. Thomas was widely considered to be one of the major poets of the English-speaking world and had been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.  An outspoken Welsh nationalist, he was also for many years a priest in the Anglican Church in Wales.  At the same time his later poetry, considered by many as amongst the finest religious poetry written in the twentieth century, is frequently a profound and anguished search for an elusive God in our contemporary world of globalized consumerism and technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTony Brown's study discusses the whole range of R. S. Thomas's writing — his poetry of the life of hill farmers in mid Wales, his often vigorous and controversial political poetry, and his later poetry of spiritual searching — and sees Thomas's perspective as consistently that of the outsider, isolated and unsure of his own identity, seeking a way of life where he could feel at home and culturally secure.  As well as providing a valuable introduction to R. S. Thomas's writing, Tony Brown's reading of Thomas's life and work also provides a range of new perspectives and insights, many based on uncollected or unpublished material, for readers already familiar with the poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Wales Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014384500976,"sku":"9780708321935","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780708321935_p0.jpg?v=1763628579","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780708321935","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}