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Song at the Year’s Turning: Poems 1942–1954
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Song at the Year’s Turning: Poems 1942–1954

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    …of the Field (1946) and Song at the Year’s Turning: Poems 1942–1954 (1955), contained a harshly critical but increasingly compassionate view of the Welsh people and their stark homeland. In Thomas’s later volumes, starting with Poetry for Supper (1958), the subjects of his poetry remained the same, yet his questions…

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