An Edition of R.S. Thomas's Letters to Raymond Garlick, 1951-1999, with a Critical Introduction and Full Notes

R.S. 的一个版本

• 批准号: AH/E000665/1
• 负责人: Jason Davies
• 金额: $ 3.21万
• 依托单位: Bangor University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE000665%2F1
• 关键词: Edition; R.S.; Thomas; Letters; Raymond

The Context of the Research My research work is towards the publication of the letters of R.S. Thomas (1913-2000), one of the finest poets in English of the twentieth century, to fellow poet and scholar Dr Raymond Garlick (1926-), himself a distinguished cultural figure. The correspondence, which is a substantial collection of 155 letters, spans the years 1951-1999. Shortly before his death R.S. Thomas informed me that Raymond Garlick was the only person with whom he had corresponded regularly and at any length about literary and cultural matters. In the light of this assertion, it is important to note in relation to the context of the research that the projected volume / for which I have already been offered a contract by one of Wales's leading publishing houses, Gomer Press / will be unique in the field of R.S. Thomas studies. The correspondence is without doubt a crucially important historical and literary document, illuminating as it does a revolutionary half-century in the cultural life of the UK and Ireland, while also referencing wider international concerns such as green issues and nuclear disarmament. In this context it is fair to say that no critical or biographical study of R.S. Thomas could safely be written without recourse to these letters.Aims and Objectives To summarize the points noted in full above, the chief objective is the publication of a volume / R.S. Thomas: Letters to Raymond Garlick, 1951-1999 / that will shed important new light on this major poet. Aims and objectives in the course of the research itself will include (i) presenting an accurate transcription of this large corpus of manuscript letters, previously unpublished and indeed hitherto unknown; (ii) providing comprehensive Notes which will fully explain and contextualize these highly allusive letters; (iii) clarifying and explaining in particular / given that Raymond Garlick's side of the correspondence has not survived / the extra dimension of a wide body of ideas, opinions and events that constitute a further context behind these letters; (iv) bringing out the general cultural significance of the often radically divergent cultural visions of Thomas and Garlick, as attested by these letters; (v) enlarging the process of contextualization further by providing a substantial critical Introduction that will place the issues raised in the correspondence in relation to wider cultural factors, both national and international. In publishing and elucidating these letters, the overall objective will therefore be to add crucially important new material / in scholarly and accessible form / at the point of contact between primary sources and the critical reception of the poet. Potential Applications and Benefits It is important to note that R.S. Thomas's work is acclaimed by the academic and general reader alike. In addition to the aspects already noted, my edition of the letters will offer new and exciting insights into R.S. Thomas's oeuvre over half a century, deepening our understanding and appreciation not only of individual poems and prose pieces but also of how as a major writer he perceived his role as a poet at particular points over that half-century. My research will also offer a fresh understanding of the sophisticated (auto)biographical dimension of R.S. Thomas's work (crucial in the case of a poet generally regarded as reclusive), and, in addition, will throw new light on Raymond Garlick's own poetry and prose (the volume will demonstrate for the first time, for instance, that several of Garlick's most important poems are in fact responses to these very letters). These important discoveries will be made available to as wide a public as possible / through the published volume itself, of course, but also by means of my lectures, seminars and conference papers on the correspondence at educational establishments UK-wide and abroad, and through radio and television interviews.

研究的背景我的研究工作是为了出版R.S.托马斯（1913-2000），二十世纪最优秀的英语诗人之一，给同行的诗人和学者雷蒙德·加利克博士（1926-），他本人也是一位杰出的文化人物。这些信件包括155封信件，时间跨度为1951年至1999年。在他去世前不久，R.S.托马斯告诉我，雷蒙德·加利克是唯一一个他经常就文学和文化问题与之通信的人。根据这一说法，重要的是要注意到，与研究的背景有关，威尔士领先的出版社之一Gomer Press已经向我提供了一份合同，这将是R.S.领域中独一无二的。托马斯学习。这些信件无疑是一份至关重要的历史和文学文献，它照亮了英国和爱尔兰文化生活中的革命性半个世纪，同时也提到了更广泛的国际关注，如绿色问题和核裁军。在这种情况下，可以公平地说，没有批判或传记研究的RS。托马斯可以安全地写没有追索权，这些信件。目的和目标为了总结以上充分指出的要点，主要目标是出版一卷/ R.S.托马斯：给雷蒙德·加利克的信，1951-1999 /这将为这位主要诗人提供重要的新线索。研究过程中的目的和目标将包括：（一）对这一大型手稿信件语料库进行准确的转录，这些信件以前未发表过，而且迄今为止确实是未知的;（二）提供全面的注释，充分解释这些高度暗示的信件并将其置于上下文之中;（iii）特别澄清和解释/鉴于雷蒙德·加利克的信件没有保存下来/构成这些信件背后的进一步背景的广泛的思想、观点和事件的额外维度;（iv）提出托马斯和加利克的文化视野往往是根本不同的一般文化意义，正如这些信件所证明的那样;（v）通过提供实质性的批判性介绍，将信函中提出的问题与更广泛的文化因素（包括国家和国际）联系起来，进一步扩大语境化的过程。在出版和阐明这些信件，因此，总体目标将是添加至关重要的新材料/在学术和访问的形式/在主要来源和诗人的关键接收之间的接触点。潜在的应用和好处重要的是要注意，R.S.托马斯的作品受到学术界和普通读者的一致好评。除了已经提到的方面之外，我的信件版本将提供对R.S.的新的和令人兴奋的见解。我们不仅对世纪以来托马斯的全部作品进行了深入的研究，而且加深了我们对个人诗歌和散文作品的理解和欣赏，也加深了我们对作为一个主要作家，他如何在这半个世纪的特定时期看待自己作为一个诗人的角色的理解和欣赏。我的研究也将提供一个新的理解复杂的（自动）传记层面的R. S。这本书不仅是对托马斯的作品（对于一个通常被认为是隐居诗人的人来说至关重要）的一次展示，而且还将对雷蒙德·加利克自己的诗歌和散文进行新的阐释（例如，这本书将首次展示加利克最重要的几首诗实际上就是对这些信件的回应）。这些重要的发现将尽可能广泛地向公众提供/当然，通过出版的卷本身，但也通过我的演讲，研讨会和会议论文在英国和国外的教育机构的通信，并通过广播和电视采访。