{"product_id":"9781845132507","title":"The Man Who Went Into the West","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Byron Rogers\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBiography: literary\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 1 July 2007 by Quarto Publishing PLC (Aurum) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 336 pages\u003cbr\u003e195 x 131 x 23mm | 254g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eByron Rogers’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  biography of Wales’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e s national poet and vicar, R.S. Thomas has been hailed as a ‘\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e masterpiece’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e , even as a work of ‘\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e genius’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e , by reviewers from Craig Brown to the Archbishop of Canterbury.  Within someone considered a wintry, austere and unsociable curmudgeon, Rogers has unearthed an extremely funny story –\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e riotously’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  so, in Rowan Williams’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  words.  Thomas is widely considered as one of the twentieth-century’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e s greatest English language poets. His bitter yet beautiful collections on Wales, its landscape, people and identity, reflect a life of political and spiritual asceticism. Indeed, Thomas is a man who banned vacuum cleaners from his house on grounds of noise, whose first act on moving into an ancient cottage was to rip out the central heating, and whose attempts to seek out more authentically Welsh parishes only brought him more into contact with loud English holidaymakers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e To Thomas’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e s many admirers this will be a surprising, sometimes shocking, but at last humanising portrait of someone who wrote truly metaphysical poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Byron Rogers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57391075262789,"sku":"9781845132507","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9781845132507.jpg?v=1773516970","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9781845132507","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}