R. S. Thomas Research
Critical Essays
Essays may be downloaded for private use. Copyright remains with Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays and with the authors. Material cannot be reproduced, circulated or republished in any form without permission.
- Jason Walford Davies (Bangor University),
“Thick Ambush of Shadows”: Allusions to Welsh literature in the work of R.S. Thomas.
Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays 1 (1995): 75-127. [read]
- M. Wynn Thomas (University of Wales, Swansea)
R.S. Thomas: War Poet
Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays 2 (1996): 82-97. [read]
- Barbara Prys Williams (University of Wales, Swansea)
“A consciousness in quest of its own truth”: Some Aspects of R.S. Thomas’s The Echoes Return Slow as Autobiography
Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays 2 (1996): 98-125.[read]
- Ben Astley
“Somewhere Between Faith and Doubt”: R.S. Thomas and the Poetry of Theology Deconstructed
Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays 4 (1998): 74-93.[read]
- William V. Davis (Baylor University)
“At the Foot of the Precipice of Water . . . Sea Shapes Coming to Celebration”: R.S. Thomas and Kierkegaard
Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays 4 (1998): 94-117.[read]
- Grahame Davies
Resident Aliens: R. S. Thomas and the Anti-Modern Movement
Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays 7 (2001-02): 50-77.[read]