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The Religious Sonnets of Dylan Thomas A Study in Imagery and Meaning
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Perspectives in Criticism
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Erscheinungsdatum
10.11.2023
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University of California PressSeitenzahl
168 (Printausgabe)
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1. Auflage
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Englisch
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9780520313279
The Religious Sonnets of Dylan Thomas: A Study in Imagery and Meaning, by H. H. Kleinman, leads readers directly into Dylan Thomas's most challenging early work-the ten-poem sequence often called the religious sonnets-through careful, classroom-tested exegesis. Rather than circling around the poems with abstract labels, Kleinman illuminates their dense symbolic network: the Incarnation and Passion, the story of Abraham and Isaac, the myth of Hercules, and the constellations. He situates the sonnets' genesis in the mid-1930s, tracks their expansion from seven to ten poems in *Twenty-Five Poems*, and surveys their reception by critics such as Francis Scarfe, Marshall Stearns, Elder Olson, and William York Tindall. Throughout, he shows how Thomas binds biblical narrative, apocrypha, and myth into a prosodically rigorous music that moves from earthbound perplexity to hard-won affirmation. Kleinman also considers Thomas's contested critical reputation. Was he apocalyptic, surrealist, Freudian, or Welsh nationalist? Kleinman rejects these reductive categories, showing instead a poet of disciplined imagery, carefully patterned consonantal sound, and formal control. He explores Thomas's debts to Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, and Owen while highlighting his independence from Continental surrealism and his limited interest in Welsh folklore or prosody. The study reveals a young poet wrestling with faith and doubt, shaping chaos into symbol and music. Written with critical clarity and pedagogical vitality, *The Religious Sonnets of Dylan Thomas* offers scholars, students, and general readers alike a reliable guide through Thomas's densest thicket of imagery, illuminating both the intricacies of his sonnet sequence and the broader poetic achievement it anticipates. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.
Many titles in the Voices Revived program are also newly available as ebooks, offered at a discounted price to support wider access to scholarly work.
Many titles in the Voices Revived program are also newly available as ebooks, offered at a discounted price to support wider access to scholarly work.
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