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R. S. Thomas

Welsh poet and Anglican priest (1913–2000)

The Reverend R. S. Thomas
Thomas in his eighties
Born	Ronald Stuart Thomas (1913-03-29)29 March 1913 Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales
Died	25 September 2000(2000-09-25) (aged 87) Pentrefelin, Gwynedd, Wales
Nationality	Welsh
Occupation(s)	Poet, priest

Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000), 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."

Life

R. S. Thomas was born at 5 Newfoundland Road, Gabalfa, Llandaff, Cardiff^[1]as the only child of Margaret (née

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Born in 1913 in Cardiff, Welsh poet and fervent nationalist, R. S. Thomas wrote about his ideal of Wales and the role of the English in stripping it of its wild and natural essence. When Thomas was just 5, his family moved north to Holyhead where his father was stationed as a merchant seaman. In 1932 he studied at the university in nearby Bangor, reading classics before going on to the priesthood.

Thomas was ordained in 1936 and became the curate for a small town in the county of Denbighshire where he met and married artist Mildred Eldridge. When he and his family moved to Welshpool, Thomas began to study Welsh and write poetry. His first collection was The Stones of the Field which was published in 1946, but it wasn’t until 1955, when he produced a fourth volume, that he began to get the critical acclaim he deserved. Indeed, John Betjeman himself wrote that Thomas was a new, and brightly shining light in the pantheon of poets.

Thomas always believed that he learned to speak Welsh too late in life to be able to write poetry effectively in it, but he did produce a number of wor

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Ronald Stuart Thomas was born in Cardiff in 1913, the son of a sea captain. He was educated at University College of North Wales and later undertook theological training at St Michael's College in Cardiff. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1936.

During his time as a rector he began to write poetry and verse. His writing career continued for fifty years during which time he produced twenty volumes of poetry and was nominated for a Nobel prize and awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Whilst religion, understandably, was one of the major themes of his work, he also wrote about nature and about Welsh history. Thomas was fervent and often outspoken Welsh patriot and even wrote his autobiography Nab (Nobody - 1985) in Welsh.

Thomas enjoyed working in the countryside and spent his whole time as a clergyman working in rural parishes. He retired in 1978. His first wife Elsi, by whom he had a son, died in 1991 after 51 years of marriage. He later married his second wife, Betty, who was with him until his death. He died at the age of 87 n 25th Sep