Contents
Preface
R. S. Thomas | Autobiographical Essay
Ned Thomas and John Barnie | “Probings: An Interview with R. S. Thomas”
Brian Morris | “The Topography of R. S. Thomas”
M. Wynn Thomas | “Keeping His Pen Clean: R. S. Thomas and Wales”
R. George Thomas | “Humanus Sum: A Second Look at R. S. Thomas”
J. D. Vicary | “Via Negativa: Absence and Presence in the Recent Poetry of R. S. Thomas”
Robert Nisbet | “R. S. Thomas: The Landscape of Near-Despair”
William V. Davis | “R. S. Thomas: Poet-Priest of the Apocalyptic Mode”
Donald Davie | “R. S. Thomas’s Poetry of the Church of Wales”
Vimala Herman | “Negativity and Language in the Religious Poetry of R. S. Thomas”
Belinda Humfrey | “The Gap in the Hedge: R. S. Thomas’s Emblem Poetry”
Julian Gitzen | “R. S. Thomas and the Vanishing God of Form and Number”
Tony Brown | “‘On the Screen of Eternity’: Some Aspects of R. S. Thomas’s Prose”
Patrick Deane | “The Unmanageable Bone: Language in R. S. Thomas’s Poetry”
James A. Davies | “‘Pessimism and Its Counters’: Between Here and Now and After”
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