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R.S. Thomas - Too Brave To Dream - Encounters with Modern Art
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Bib. Number0023434
R.S. Thomas - Too Brave To Dream - Encounters with Modern Art
Author/EditorEdited by BROWN Tony, WALFORD DAVIES Jason
PublisherBloodaxe Books
Place PublishedNorthumberland, England
Year2016
Date & Collation109pp.Illus.Uncropped artworks.Editors' notes on the poems.Acknowledgements.
LanguageEnglish
More InformationA collection of ekphrastic poems by R.S. Thomas. The title 'Too Brave to Dream' is taken from R.S. Thomas's poem about Moore's Shelter Drawing 1941 (HMF 1848). The inside cover title page represents copy of Thomas's manuscript of poem in response to Shelter Drawing. On page 15 and 16 of the introduction by the editors there is reference to Thomas's poem about Moore's work Shelter Drawing. Page 36 shows a cropped image of the work as originally presented in Poems to artworks in Herbert Read, Art Now: An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting and Sculpture the footnote to which acknowledges that Read failed to note that the image in the original was a detail from Moore's drawing which is reproduced in full on page 104. Thomas's poem is presented on page 37.