The Religious Sonnets of Dylan Thomas: A Study in Imagery and Meaning

The Religious Sonnets of Dylan Thomas: A Study in Imagery and Meaning, by H. H. Kleinman, leads readers directly into Dylan Thomas’s most challenging early work—the ten-poem sequence often called the religious sonnets—through careful, classroom-tested exegesis. Rather than circling around the poems with abstract labels, Kleinman illuminates their dense symbolic network: the Incarnation and Passion, the story of Abraham and Isaac, the myth of Hercules, and the constellations. He situates the...