R. S. Thomas
Author
1913 – 2000
Who was R. S. Thomas?
Ronald Stuart Thomas, published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest who was noted for his nationalism, spirituality and deep dislike of the anglicisation of Wales. John Betjeman, in his 1955 introduction to Song at the Year's Turning, the first collection of Thomas’s poetry to be produced by a major publisher, predicted that Thomas would be remembered long after he himself was forgotten. M. Wynn Thomas said: "He was the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn of Wales because he was such a troubler of the Welsh conscience. He was one of the major English language and European poets of the 20th century."
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- Born
- Mar 29, 1913
Cardiff - Also known as
- Ronald Stuart Thomas
- R.S. Thomas
- Parents
- Spouses
- Mildred Eldridge
(1940 - 1991)
- Mildred Eldridge
- Children
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Nationality
- Wales
- Profession
- Education
- Bangor University
- Died
- Sep 25, 2000
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on July 23, 2013
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