In a wide-ranging and social life JM
met innumerable people whose names are household words or very near it. Some neighbours in Wales whom she got to know were the poet R. S. Thomas
and...
Reception
Gillian Clarke
The poems in this volume include contributions by Ted Hughes
, Seamus Heaney
, and R. S. Thomas
.
Textual Features
Maureen Duffy
Dates given to poems in the volume range from August 1970 to December 1978.
Duffy, Maureen. Memorials of the Quick and the Dead. Hamish Hamilton, 1979.
64, 85
Many handle the world's headline griefs; many record the tiny deaths of animals. The opening poem, Memorials of the...
Late October 1955: The Welsh poet R. S. (Ronald Stuart) Thomas...
Writing climate item
Late October 1955
The Welsh poet R. S. (Ronald Stuart) Thomas
first came to wide notice with his collection Song at the Year's Turning (with an introduction by John Betjeman
), which drew on three earlier volumes.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.