Who is Ronald Stuart Thomas

Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000), published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest (Church of Wales) noted for nationalism, spirituality and dislike of the anglicisation of Wales. John Betjeman, introducing Song at the Year's Turning (1955), the first collection of Thomas's poetry from 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."

Life

R. S. Thomas was born in Cardiff as the only child of Margaret (née Davies) and Thomas Hubert Thomas. The family moved to Holyhead in 1918 b...
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Ronald Stuart Thomas Poems

  • A Blackbird Singing
    It seems wrong that out of this bird,
    Black, bold, a suggestion of dark
    Places about it, there yet should come
    Such rich music, as though the notes' ...
  • On The Farm
    There was Dai Puw. He was no good.
    They put him in the fields to dock swedes,
    And took the knife from him, when he came home
    At late evening with a grin ...
  • Chapel Deacon
    Who put that crease in your soul,
    Davies, ready this fine morning
    For the staid chapel, where the Book's frown
    Sobers the sunlight? Who taught you to pray ...
  • Pisces
    Who said to the trout,
    You shall die on Good Friday
    To be food for a man
    And his pretty lady? ...
  • Praise
    I praise you because
    you are artist and scientist
    in one. When I am somewhat
    fearful of your power, ...
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Roy_wallen: you have to imagine a waiting that is not impatient because it is timeless. – ronald stuart (r.s.) thomas, born on this date in 1913
Pauljimerson: it is the birthday of the poet r.s. thomas, born ronald stuart thomas in cardiff, wales (1913). most of his poems were about the people and landscape of his native land. he was an anglican clergyman, as well as a poet, until 1978 when he retired and devoted himself to the cause
Roy_wallen: you have to imagine a waiting that is not impatient because it is timeless. – ronald stuart (r.s.) thomas, born on this date in 1913
Ariesonneveld: de maan en het kind, ze stralen allebei, maar "the light from the one is abroad in the universe as among broken glass." kerstkind - nativity - van ronald stuart thomas
Fuzzywiggster: …. having looked up from the day’s chores, pause a minute, let the mind take its photograph of the bright scene, something to wear against the heart in the long cold. a day in autumn~ronald stuart thomas
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Nolwandle: Nice poems

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