Summary: <strong>Ronald Stuart Thomas</strong> (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000), published as <strong>R. S. Thomas</strong>, was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Welsh</a> poet and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_in_Wales" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Anglican</a> priest who was noted for his nationalism, spirituality and dislike of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicisation" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">anglicisation</a> of Wales. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Betjeman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Betjeman</a>, in his 1955 introduction to <em>Song at the Year's Turning</em>, 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</a> 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." <em>- Bio via Wikipedia. </em><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
