Letters to Vernon Watkins

Letters to Vernon Watkins PDF Author: Dylan Thomas
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Category : Poets, Welsh
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Letters to Vernon Watkins

Letters to Vernon Watkins PDF Author: Dylan Thomas
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Languages : en
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The Poetry of the Forties

The Poetry of the Forties PDF Author: A. Trevor Tolley
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719017087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Reading Dylan Thomas

Reading Dylan Thomas PDF Author: Edward Allen
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474411568
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Reading Dylan Thomas attends in detail to the problems and pleasures of deciphering Thomas in the twenty-first century, teasing out his debts and effects, tracing his influence on later artists, and suggesting ways to understand his own idiosyncratic reading practices.

David Jones

David Jones PDF Author: David Blamires
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719007309
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Selected Letters of Dylan Thomas

Selected Letters of Dylan Thomas PDF Author: Dylan Thomas
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Category : Authors, Welsh
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Letters from Wales

Letters from Wales PDF Author: Sam Adams
Publisher: Parthian Books
ISBN: 1914595084
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 541

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'Letters from Wales stands alone as an invaluable guide to Welsh writing.' – Sam Young, Wales Arts Review 'In these columns, as impressive for their depth as they are for their intellectual breadth, Adams analyses the work of acclaimed Welsh writers ... with scholarly panache' – Joshua Rees, Buzz Magazine 'illuminating and entertaining' – Jon Gower, Nation.Cymru Since 1996, Sam Adams's 'Letter from Wales' column has been appearing in PN Review, one of the most highly-regarded UK poetry magazines, offering insight and appreciation of Welsh writing, culture and history. This landmark volume collects these letters – a quarter century of work – and offers one of the most unique, independent and passionate critical voices on the writing and cultural output of Wales during this period. Here you will find erudite appreciations of the work of a wide range of recent and contemporary Welsh writers from Gillian Clarke to Roland Mathias, RS Thomas to Rhian Edwards. Alongside this, Adams offers us lyric essays to Welsh history, and clear-eyed examinations of the institutions of Welsh culture. Collected for the first time in this volume, the 'letters' are among the most significant and sustained attempts during this period to present Welsh writing to an audience throughout the UK and beyond.

Location Register of Twentieth-century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters

Location Register of Twentieth-century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters PDF Author:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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Where Have the Old Words Got Me?

Where Have the Old Words Got Me? PDF Author: Ralph Maud
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773570489
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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Although Dylan Thomas is the one of the most well-known poets of the twentieth century, much of his poetry is considered obscure and difficult, and readers and critics tend to concentrate on those poems that can be most easily understood. Not since the early sixties has there been an attempt to explicate the full corpus of Dylan Thomas's Collected Poems. In Where Have the Old Words Got Me? Ralph Maud tackles Thomas's entire work, giving special attention to more difficult and obscure poems. He makes valuable use of Thomas's letters as edited by Paul Ferris in his authoritative Collected Letters volume, bringing the whole man and his work into view.

Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas PDF Author: John Ackerman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349243663
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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`That brilliant commentator on Dylan, John Ackerman' - Andrew Sinclair, Dylan Thomas: Poet of his People John Ackerman's highly acclaimed study of the poems and prose works of Dylan Thomas traces his development as a writer, linking this for the first time with his Welsh background. The formative influence of Swansea on the young poet, his family roots in West Wales and the childhood visits to Fernhill farm and the nearby Blaen Cwm cottage are all included, together with the Boat House anhd Laugharne, the absorbing village life and the inspiration of its now famous land- and sea-scapes. The impact of Welsh nonconformity and the chapel, and the radical politics of Wales are also explored as important influences on the poet's career. The 1994 preface, together with the introduction, throws new light on later poems like 'Prologue', the poet's work in film, broadcasting, as reader and as lecturer, while his own newly-discovered words, sharp and witty and with a poet's eye highlight his life, times and craft. The kaleidoscope of his changing worlds is seen in his homes in Wales and England, and his need in each one for a separate place to write, whether the hillside shed in Laugharne or a gypsy caravan in Oxfordshire or Camden.

Selected Letters of William Empson

Selected Letters of William Empson PDF Author: John Haffenden
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191569429
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 792

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This edited collection of letters by William Empson (1906-1984), one of the foremost writers and literary critics of the twentieth century, ranges across the entirety of his career. Parts of the correspondence record the development of ideas that were to come to fruition in seminal texts including Seven Types of Ambiguity, The Structure of Complex Words, and Milton's God. The topics of other letters range from Shakespeare's Dark Lady to Marvell's marriage and Byron's bisexuality. Empson relished correspondence that was combative, if not downright aggressive. As a result, parts of this edition take the form of a serial disputation with other critics of the period, including Frank Kermode, Helen Gardner, Philip Hobsbaum, and I. A. Richards. Other notable correspondents include A. Alvarez, Bonamy Dobrée, Leslie Fiedler, Graham Hough, C. K. Ogden, George Orwell, Kathleen Raine, John Crowe Ransom, Christopher Ricks, Laura Riding, A. L. Rowse, Stephen Spender, E. M. W. Tillyard, Rosemond Tuve, John Wain, and G. Wilson Knight. All readers of literary history and criticism will stand to benefit from this edition. Empson is universally credited as the man who 'invented' modern literary criticism, so that all of his writings make a signal addition to the canon of his works. This selection provides a context for the evaluation of Empson's total literary output; and in many letters Empson seeks to defend his ideas against both published and personal attacks. This volume not only fills in all the missing links, it adds up to a completely new volume of critical writings by Empson.