RS Thomas was the greatest religious poet writing in English in the 20th century, but the 270 poems he chose for this definitive selection reveal a wide range of themes and concerns. He was a passionate Welsh patriot, but also an outspoken critic of his countrymen. His poems are an expression of his lifelong argument with himself, of his insistent search for God. In them he grapples with ideas of Welshness, with issues of technology, pollution, the decline of culture. He wrote too about love, about landscape, nature and birds. His is an urgent, prophetic and unique voice.

Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

R.S. Thomas

Poetry

Penguin??Books

Later Poems, 1972-82

Macmillan

<p>In The Echoes Return Slow , R.S. Thomas looks back upon his life and explores the experiences that have shaped his poetry. In parallel sequences of prose and verse, each reflecting and illuminating the other, he writes with the unflinching candour that characterizes his poetry of growing up in Wales, of marriage and parenthood, and of his own development as a poet. But at the heart of the work is his life in the church, as ‘vicar of large things in a small parish,’ striving to respond to the needs of his parishioners and being forced to examine his own faith in the face of scientific developments and changing social attitudes.</p>

The Echoes Return Slow

Papermac

What is a Welshman?

Christopher Davies Publishers

Translated from the original Welsh, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES is a collection of the most personal writings of one of this century's most important poets.

Autobiographies

Biographies & Memoirs

Phoenix Paperbacks

<p>A collection of R.S. Thomas's poems, published to mark his 80th birthday. Many of his themes are prophetic to issues such as technology and our use of it to destroy the natural world; and the search for personal and national identity and for meaning in human life.</p>

Collected Poems@@ 1945-1990

Blwyddyn Yn Llyn

History

Europe

Gwasg Gwynedd

R.S.Thomas is one of the most important poets of our time and this is his selection taken from his six books published since the war.

Selected poems, 1946-1968

Bloodaxe Books

This collection of R.S. Thomas's poems have been published to mark his 80th birthday. Many of his themes are prophetic to all our concerns; his attack on technology and our use of it to destroy the natural world; his passionate concern for all who suffer from the greed of others; the search for personal and national identity and for meaning in human life; the quest for and dialogue with a God now absent, now present. R.S. Thomas has won many awards, including the "Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry" in 1964 and the Cholmondeley Award in 1978.

Collected poems, 1945-1990

History & Criticism

Phoenix Giant

Laubbaum Sprache

Babel

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