The Man Who Went Into the West - Softcover

Rogers, Byron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845132505 ISBN 13: 9781845132507

Verlag: Aurum Press Ltd, 2007

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Críticas:

‘A biography touched by genius’

(Craig Brown Mail on Sunday)

‘A masterpiece’

(Daily Express)

‘Byron Rogers’ lively and affectionate biography... is unexpectedly, even riotously funny... Warm, perceptive, ruthless, gossipy and admiring’

(Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury The Sunday Times)

‘This book ought to win every award for which it is eligible’

(Andrew Martin Sunday Telegraph)

Reseña del editor:

Byron Rogers’ biography of Wales’s national poet and vicar, R.S. Thomas has been hailed as a ‘masterpiece’, even as a work of ‘genius’, by reviewers from Craig Brown to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Within someone considered a wintry, austere and unsociable curmudgeon, Rogers has unearthed an extremely funny story – ‘riotously’ so, in Rowan Williams’ words.

Thomas is widely considered as one of the twentieth-century’s greatest English language poets. His bitter yet beautiful collections on Wales, its landscape, people and identity, reflect a life of political and spiritual asceticism. Indeed, Thomas is a man who banned vacuum cleaners from his house on grounds of noise, whose first act on moving into an ancient cottage was to rip out the central heating, and whose attempts to seek out more authentically Welsh parishes only brought him more into contact with loud English holidaymakers.

To Thomas’s many admirers this will be a surprising, sometimes shocking, but at last humanising portrait of someone who wrote truly metaphysical poetry.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Aurum Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1845132505
• ISBN 13: 9781845132507
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 350