This is a short critical study analysing the achievement of Dylan Thomas against its Welsh cultural background, and at the same time giving an overview of his career and impact as one of the most original and attractive of twentieth-century poets internationally.The book was originally published in a limited edition in the Writers of Wales series and has now been revised.

Product Description: This volume shows the work and life of the poet and provides a selection of paintings of the period.

Product Description: In his poetry Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) sought to discover afresh the potentialities of language, and to that end developed his idiosyncratic theories of instress, inscape and sprung rhythm. Hopkins's verse is also informed by his religious beliefs; having converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1866, he became a Jesuit priest eleven years later...read more