‘Hoping for the Reciprocal Touch’: Intimations of the Manus Dei in the Poetry of R.S. Thomas

This essay seeks to establish the wide-ranging significance of a motif which is fundamental to our understanding of R.S. Thomas's life and work. Whereas the poet's treatment of the cross has been well documented, his less obvious use of the outstretched or clasped hand as an emblem of the...

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Main Author: Perry, Sam (Author)
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Published: Oxford University Press 2007
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 178-197
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