18 Poems
A Defence of Poetry
A Prayer for My Daughter
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And death shall have no dominion
Apostasy
Apotheosis
Archetype
Asceticism
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Bible
Black Mass
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Consummation
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Creation myth
Cuckold
D. H. Lawrence
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Do not go gentle into that good night
Dramatic monologue
English poetry
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Fall of man
Forbidden fruit
God
Good and evil
Hart Crane
Henry Treece
Heresy
Holy of Holies
Hypostatic union
Imagery
In Parenthesis
Internal rhyme
John Clare
Judeo-Christian
Karl Shapiro
King Lear
Lament
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Lord's Prayer
Metaphysical poets
Murder in the Cathedral
Mysticism
Natural religion
Nonconformist
Old Testament
On Religion
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
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Paganism
Parable
Parody
Pathetic fallacy
Poetic diction
Poetry
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Propitiation
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Psalms
Pun
Quibble (plot device)
Religious image
Sanctum sanctorum
Shakespeare's sonnets
Simile
Sin-eater
Sodomy
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Stephen Dedalus
Superiority (short story)
Supplication
The Dissertation
The Idiot
The Philosopher
Theism
Theology
V.
Vernon Watkins
William Blake
Product details
- ISBN 9780691645988
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 19 Apr 2016
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Since the Bible appears so frequently in Dylan Thomas' work, some critics have decided that he must be a religious poet. Others, noting blasphemous statements and certain irreligious aspects of Thomas' personal life, contend that he was no such thing. Rushworth M. Kidder, investigating this problem, looks below the surface of the obviously religious imagery and discovers a more profound poetry. The first part of this book discusses the nature of religious poetry and the application of that term to Thomas' work; it then develops the necessary background based on his letters and prose comments to provide a foundation for the study; and finally it examines the relationship between the religious aspects of his poetry and his well-known ambiguity. The author re-defines the vocabulary for dealing with religious imagery by establishing three distinct categories of imagery: referential, allusive, and thematic. This original technique is used to examine critically Thomas' poems to show the development of his religious and poetic thought.
There are numerous close, sensitive readings of individual poems to show how his poetry, like the Bible, teaches by parable, speaking deliberate ambiguity rather than simple dogma. This strategy inspired poetry that is technically complex but thematically simple, a mode of verse that became more explicitly religious in the poet's final years. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
