Liberating Dylan Thomas: Rescuing a Poet from Psycho-sexual Servitude (University of Wales Press - Writing Wales in English) - Softcover

Barfoot, Rhian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783161841 ISBN 13: 9781783161843

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2016

Synopsis

Criticism of Dylan Thomas has tended to rest too heavily on the assumption that his poems are primarily a reflection of his inner psychological troubles. With Liberating Dylan Thomas, Rhian Barfoot undertakes the challenge of freeing Thomas from such constraints, analyzing the poetry instead on its own terms and identifying the sophisticated conception of the possibilities and limitations of language that underpin Thomas’s complex practice.

Barfoot highlights the sensuous quality of the poems and Thomas’s exhilarating, demanding linguistic innovations. By separating Thomas the unforgettable figure from the work he created, Barfoot allows us to appreciate his poetry anew.
 

About this title

About the Author

Rhian Barfoot is a research fellow at the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales, Swansea University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783161841
• ISBN 13: 9781783161843
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240