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In the volumes Pittà (1966) and Not that he Brought Flowers (1968), there is a further development in the poet’s attempt to mediate religious sense. In particular, the question of how God speaks to the diverse character of human life becomes far more central then it has been hitherto.
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Notes
Mathias, ‘Philosophy and Religion in the Poetry of R. S. Thomas’, Poetry Wales, Spring 1972, p. 44.
Anthony Conran, ‘R. S. Thomas and the Anglo-Welsh Crisis’, Poetry Wales, Spring 1972, p. 72.
Sam Adams, ‘A Note on Four Poems’, Poetry Wales, Spring 1972, p. 79.
Adams, ‘A Note on Four Poems’, Poetry Wales, Spring 1972.
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Phillips, D.Z. (1986). Waiting for God. In: R. S. Thomas: Poet of the Hidden God. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08125-7_5
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