R.S. Thomas has always posed difficult questions in his poems and forced readers to confront uncertainities, ambiguities and the equivocal and paradoxical nature of our experience of life. In Mass for Hard Times, he has drawn together a collection which encompasses all his major areas of questioning. Here are poems about time and history, about the self, about language and the writing of poetry, about love, the machine, the Cross and prayer. In many of the poems clusters of these concerns are movingly and unforgettably imaged in both familiar and new ways: the sea and ships, journeys and travellers, painting, mirrors, science and geological time are intertwined as he questions and re?ects. What is most powerful and original here is the humour and irony of his voice, and his use of some of the classic structures of modern consciousness - the form of the Mass and liturgy, children's rhymes, the seasons and the sonata.
| ISBN: | 9781852242299 |
| Publication date: | 24th September 1992 |
| Author: | R S Thomas |
| Publisher: | Bloodaxe Books an imprint of Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 96 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |
R.S. Thomas has always posed difficult questions in his poems and forced readers to confront uncertainities, ambiguities and the equivocal and paradoxical nature of our experience of life. In Mass for Hard Times, he has drawn together a collection which encompasses all his major areas of questioning. Here are poems about time and history, about the self, about language and the writing of poetry, about love, the machine, the Cross and prayer. In many of the poems clusters of these concerns are movingly and unforgettably imaged in both familiar and new ways: the sea and ships, journeys and travellers, painting, mirrors, science and geological time are intertwined as he questions and re?ects. What is most powerful and original here is the humour and irony of his voice, and his use of some of the classic structures of modern consciousness - the form of the Mass and liturgy, children's rhymes, the seasons and the sonata.
Mass for Hard Times features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
Mass for Hard Times is available in Paperback
Mass for Hard Times was written by R S Thomas and published by Bloodaxe Books an imprint of Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Mass for Hard Times has 96 pages