
Too Brave to Dream
When R.S. Thomas died in 2000, two seminal studies of modern art were found on his bookshelves – Herbert Read''s Art Now (1933/1948) and Surrealism (1936), edited by Read and containing essays by key figures in the Surrealist movement. Some three dozen previously unknown poems handwritten by Thomas were later discovered between the pages of the two books, poems written in response to a selection o...
When R.S. Thomas died in 2000, two seminal studies of modern art were found on his bookshelves – Herbert Read''s Art Now (1933/1948) and Surrealism (1936), edited by Read and containing essays by key figures in the Surrealist movement. Some three dozen previously unknown poems handwritten by Thomas were later discovered between the pages of the two books, poems written in response to a selection o...