Results for "Thomas, M. Wynn"

An exploration of Wales’s deep connections to music through one specific style: the hymn. Even as many in the modern world draw away from organized religion, the great hymns of our time persist: we turn to them at weddings and funerals, at rugby matches, and in pubs.   Bringing together twelve ... Read More about Poems From the Soul: Twelve of the Great Hymns of Wales

An edited collection of essays, interviews, and book reviews by M. Wynn Thomas. For more than half a century, M. Wynn Thomas has been Wales’s foremost literary critic. His ground-breaking work—on subjects ranging from Welsh Puritanism to Walt Whitman, from religious Dissent to contemporary poetry—ha... Read More about Transatlantic Vistas: Engagements with the Literatures of Wales and the United States

A collection of Welsh love poems across history. An exhilarating look at the many ways we love and are loved. Following his bestselling The History of Wales in Twelve Poems, M Wynn Thomas turns his attention to love poems from Wales and reflects on what they have to say on the age-old subject of lov... Read More about A Map of Love: Twelve Welsh Poems of Romance, Desire and Devotion

A short collection of poems that provides a window into the Welsh poetic tradition from ancient times to today. Throughout the centuries, poets have provided Wales with a window into its own distinctive world. This book aims to give general readers a sense of the view to be seen through that special... Read More about The History of Wales in Twelve Poems

A study of spirituality in modern Welsh poetry.   R. S. Thomas and Rowan Williams’s great religious poetry continued a well-established Welsh tradition. This book examines spiritual resonance in late-twentieth-century Welsh poetry, including writers as diverse as Saunders Lewis, Vernon Watkins,... Read More about R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams: The Spiritual Imagination in Modern Welsh Poetry (University of Wales Press - Writing Wales in English)

Wales is small geographically, but its rich and varied culture belies its size. This collection of essays focuses on English-language authors from Wales in order to offer a sample of the country's internal diversity. Contributors include Lynette Roberts, who is Argentinian by birth but of Welsh dece... Read More about All That Is Wales: The Collected Essays of M. Wynn Thomas (University of Wales Press - Writing Wales in English)