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In Poetry for Supper (1958), Tares (1961) and The Bread of Truth (1964) R. S. Thomas pays more direct attention to the difficulties he encounters in trying to speak of God with meaning. It is not that he does not revert to moods and sentiments we have met with already; he certainly does. But he also expresses a growing concern with his own vocation as a priest, a concern out of which maturer religious understandings are to emerge in later volumes.
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Notes
A. E. Dyson, Yeats, Eliot and R. S. Thomas (London: Macmillan, 1981) p. 302.
Benedict Nightingale, ‘Hewer of Verses’, in Critical Writings on R. S. Thomas, ed. Sandra Anstey (Bridgend: Poetry Wales Press, 1982) p. 35.
John Ackerman, ‘Man and Nature in the Poetry of R. S. Thomas’, Poetry Wales, Spring 1972, p. 15.
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Phillips, D.Z. (1986). An Inadequate Language?. In: R. S. Thomas: Poet of the Hidden God. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08125-7_4
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