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This chapter attends to intimacy as a property and concern of Thomas’s poetry. Through readings of poems including ‘I never saw that land before’, ‘Aspens’, and ‘The Long Small Room’, as well as a cluster of Thomas’s love poems, it argues that his most rewarding writing cultivates a sense of personal contact without sacrificing a feeling of separateness and singularity.
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Hodgson, A. (2019). Thomas II: ‘Intimate Speech’. In: The Poetry of Clare, Hopkins, Thomas, and Gurney. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30971-8_8
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