Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
Gresham College Lectures
Christianity and Literature: The paradoxes of R S Thomas
•
Gresham College
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
R S Thomas had a reputation for writing verse expressing a very bleak view of life, and being a dour and unsociable man. In fact some of his poems have a remarkable tender, lyrical quality and new evidence about his life reveals a man of great wit and warmth. The lecture will explore these...