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R.S. Thomas and the Problem of Welsh Identity ...
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One aspect of R.S. Thomas’s work which is perhaps most difficult for Americans to fathom is his relation to Welsh nationalism. This rather arcane issue is complicated even further by the fact that Thomas is an Anglo-Welsh poet, indeed the guiding spirit of what is known as the Anglo-Welsh movement. Tony Bianchi has called Thomas “the dominant voice in the attempt by Anglo-Welsh writers to define an audience.” Throughout his career, Thomas has been faced with the difficult choice of writing poetry in what he considers a foreign language, or committing creative suicide. Having been born in “the capital of a fake nation” (The Echoes Return Slow 4), that is, Cardiff in English speaking southern Wales, Thomas did not learn Welsh until he was thirty, too late for it to be of use for poetry (Selected Prose 182). The resultant tensions in his work are sometimes overlooked by English critics, who would rather welcome Thomas as a distinguished “colonial” contributor to their own literature, and who thus concentrate ...
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Colonial literature; Eliot, T. S. Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965; Gunboat linguistics; Joyce, James, 1882-1941; Thomas, R. S. Ronald Stuart, 1913-2000; Welsh nationalism; Welsh poetry
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7282/t3cn772h
https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/esploro/outputs/conferencePaper/991031550047504646
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Distribution patterns of imperfect and preterite forms of perception verbs in Middle and Early Modern Welsh prose texts : Dataset ...
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WALS Online Resources for Welsh
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: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2021
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WALS Online Resources for Welsh (Colloquial)
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WALS Online Resources for Romani (Welsh)
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Glottolog 4.4 Resources for Old-Middle Welsh
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techiaith/geiriadur-ynganu-bangor: Geiriadur Ynganu Bangor Pronunciation Dictionary ...
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techiaith/geiriadur-ynganu-bangor: Geiriadur Ynganu Bangor Pronunciation Dictionary ...
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Fragment of a comparative vocabulary of Latin, Welsh, Cornish and Amoric ...
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Synonymous plural morphemes and their use in Welsh presented at AIMM5 ...
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Synonymous plural morphemes and their use in Welsh presented at AIMM5 ...
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Rhetoric and Reality: A Critical Review of Language Policy and Legislation Governing Official Minority Language Use in Health and Social Care in Wales
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Glottolog 4.4 Resources for Welsh Romani
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