Ronald Stuart Thomas
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'
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- 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
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- 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
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- Pisces
Who said to the trout,
You shall die on Good Friday
To be food for a man
And his pretty lady?
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- 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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