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Book SynopsisSince the Bible appears so frequently in Dylan Thomas' work, some critics have decided that he must be a religious poet. Others, noting blasphemous statements and certain irreligious aspects of Thomas' personal life, contend that he was no such thing. Rushworth M. Kidder, investigating this problem, looks below the surface of the obviously religiou
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Contents, pg. xi*Chapter I. Religious Poetry, pg. 3*Chapter II. Ambiguity and Religion, pg. 26*Chapter III. Three Types of Religious Imagery, pg. 47*Chapter IV. Referential Imagery, pg. 59*Chapter V: Allusive Imagery, pg. 69*Chapter VI. Thematic Imagery, pg. 91*Chapter VII. 18 Poems, pg. 113*Chapter VIII. Twenty-Five Poems, pg. 125*Chapter IX. The Map of Love, pg. 140*Chapter X. Deaths and Entrances, pg. 155*Chapter XI. In Country Sleep, pg. 187*Chapter XII. "The Prayer's End": A Conclusion, pg. 204*Appendix: The Tendency Toward Ambiguity in Thomas' Revisions, pg. 209*Works Cited, pg. 221*Index, pg. 227
