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R. S. Thomas

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Welsh poet (1913-2000)

United KingdomWritersLived 1913 to 2000 · aged 87
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Ronald Stuart Thomas, published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest noted for nationalism, spirituality and dislike of the anglicisation of Wales.

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1996Horst Bienek Award for Poetry
1978Cholmondeley Award
1955Heinemann Award
King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry

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Ronald Stuart Thomas, published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest 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."

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United Kingdom
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Writers
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Status
deceased
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Lived 1913 to 2000 · aged 87
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19 languages

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