| Year | Author or Editor | Title | Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | W.Moelwyn Merchant | R.S.Thomas | University of Wales Press | This book is revised in 1989. For the author R.S.Thomas's exploration had come to its climax in Frequencies (1978) so he did not need this book to be expanded when it was revised. |
| 1983 | Sandra Anstey(editing and introduction) | Critical Writings on R.S. Thomas | Poetry Wales Press | This books was revised and expanded with new bibliography of the critacial materials on R.S. Thomas in 1992 for Seren Books. This second edition is the best guide for readers and will be eye opener for them. This splendid edition includes Randal Jenkins's 'R.S.Thomas: Occasional Prose'(1972), Tony Banchi's 'R.S.Thomas and his Readers'(1986), Tony Brown's '"On the Screen of Eternity": Some Aspects of R.S.Thomas's Prose'(1988), A.M.Allchin's 'Out of Silence'(1991) and more. |
| 1986 | D.Z.Phillips | R.S.Thomas and Hidden God | Macmillan | As the result of the author's hard work, this book contains thoughtful meditations on RST's poetry. According to the preface, "This essay is offered as one philosopher's response to the poetry of R.S.Thomas." |
| 1987 | John Powell Ward | The Poetry of R.S.Thomas | seren | This book was revised and expanded with a new chapter entitled 'Final Years' in 2001. |
| 1990 | M.Wynn Thomas | R.S.Thomas Y Cawr Awenydd* | Gwasg Gomer | This book is written in Welsh. The titel of the book means 'R.S.Thomas, The Giant Poet.' |
| 1993 | William V.Davis (editing) | Miraculous Simplicity: Essays on R.S. Thomas | The University of Arkansas Press | Not only excellent essays on R.S.Thomas but R.S.Thomas's autobiographical essay is included. |
| 1993 | M.Wynn Thomas | The Page's Drift: R.S. Thomas at Eighty | Seren Books | This collection of essays on R.S.Thomas was published to celebrate his eightieth birthday. |
| 1996 | Elaine Shephered | R.S.Thomas: Conceding an Absence | MacMillan Press Ltd | This excellent book concentrates on R.S.Thomas's both positive and negative images of God. Each chapter focuses on his images and examines his exploration of God, occasionally in darkness. |
| 1996 | Justin Wintle | Furious Interiors: Wales, R.S. Thomas and God | Harper Collins Publishers | Hard work over 500 pages. However this book made R.S.Thomas furious. |
| 2003 | Damian Walford Davies (editing) | Echoes to the Amen: Essays After R.S .Thomas | University of Wales Press | This book is the first collection of critical essays on R.S. Thomas's poetry after his death in 2000. This book contains an introduction, a bibliography and 9 critical essays. |
| 2004 | William J. McGill | Poets' Meeting George Herbert, R.S. Thomas, and the Argument with God | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers | This book examines lives and poetry of two Anglican poets who lived in different tiems but both struggled with the recurrent silences of God. | 2006 | Barry Morgan | Strangely Orthodox R.S. Thomas and his Poetry of Faith | Gomer | Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales, carefully examine RST's "controversial" religious beliefs. This book is 'a concise and covenient companion to Thomas's devotional poems.' |
| 2006 | Tony Brown | R.S.Thomas (Writers of Wales) | University of Wales Press | A masterpiece. This book covers from R.S. as a nationalist to R.S.'s searching for God. Everything about R.S.'s poetry, life, and cultures in Wales is here. |
| 2006 | Byron Rogers | The Man Who Went Into The West : The Life of R.S.Thomas | Aurum Press Limited | This is a wonderful biography. Many interviews conducted by the author reveal some aspects untold by the poet himself in Neb or "Autobiographical Essay". |
| 2011 | Daniel Westovers | R.S.Thomas A Stylistic Biography | University of Wales Press, Cardiff | Highly acclaimed. Mr. Westover traces and analyses 60 years of RST's shifting poetic style in detail, 'demonstrating how Thomas's tensions and anxieties manifest themselves.' |
| 2012 | Alison Goodlad | Leaving The Reason Torn Re-thinking cross and resurrection through R.S. Thomas | Shoving Leopard | The author carefully examines RST's theology, especially on cross and resurrection, the core of Christian belief, in the skeptical age of the 20th century. |
| 2013 | John G. McEllhenney | A Masterwork of Doubting-Belief R.S. Thomas and His Poetry | WIPF and STOCK Publishers | Who imagined a relationship between RST and Paul Tillich, German American Christian existentialist philosopher and theologian? Here's the answer. This book contains very interesting and curious reviews on RST's poetry as well as the author's interview with RST. If you have interests in Tillich and RST, this is must-have. |
| 2013 | Edited by Gareth Neigwl Williams | Cofio R. S. - Cleniach yn Gymraeg? | Gwasg y Bwthyn, Caernarfon | This is not actually a critical essay but collections of personal memories from RST's friends and neighbours. Contains very good and rare photos. Written only in Welsh. |
| 2013 | M.Wynn Thomas | R.S.Thomas Serial Obsessive | University of Wales Press, Cardiff | Uncollected collection of essays was finally assembled and published as one book. This impressive book celebrates R.S.Thomas's cenenary. |
| Year | Author | Feature or writings | Editor | Title of book | Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | R.George Thomas | - | - | Writers And Their Works (No. 166): R.S.Thomas | Longmans for the British Council | - |
| 1972 | - | R.S.Thomas Special Issue | Meic Stephens | Poetry Wales | - | Spring issue |
| 1974 | C.Obedient | 'Essay on R.S.Thomas' | - | Eight Contemporary Poets | Oxford University Press | - |
| 1979 | - | R.S.Thomas's later Poetry Special | John Powell Ward | Poetry Wales | - | Spring issue |
| 1981 | A.E.Dyson | - | - | Yeats, Eliot and R.S.Thomas: Riding the Echo | The MacMillan Press Ltd. | This book of studies contains a chapter entitled 'The Poetry of R.S.Thomas: What Resource?'. |
| 1982 | Anthony Conran | - | - | The Cost of Strangeness: Essays on English Poets of Wales | Gomer Press | - |
| 1987 | Tony Brown | 'Language, Poetry and Silence: Some Themes in the Poetry of R.S. Thomas' | W.Tydeman | The Welsh Connection | Gomer Press | - |
| 1993 | - | R.S.Thomas at Eighty(Special Issue) | Robin Reeves | New Welsh Review | - | Spring issue |
| 1996 | David Lloyd | 'Through the Looking Glass: R.S. Thomas's The Echoes Return Slow as Poetic Autobiography' | - | Twentieth Century Literature 42.4 | - | - |
| 1996 | - | 'R.S.Thomas: War Poet' by M.Wynn Thomas & 'R.S.Thoams's The Echoes Return Slow as autobiography' by Barbara Prys Williams | Tony Brown | Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays Vo.2 | The New Welsh Review | - |
| 1998 | - | Special Feature on R.S.Thomas | William Cookson | Agenda | - | Vol.32 issue |
| 1998 | Patrick Crotty | Lean Parishes: Patrick Kavanagh's The Great Hunger and R.S.Thomas's The Minister | Katie Gramich and Andrew Hiscock | Dangerous Diversity - The Changing Faces of Wales Essays in Honour of Tudor Bevan | University of Cardiff Press | Mr. Crotty carefully examines correlation between Irish Poet Patrick Kavanagh's The Great Hunger and R.S.Thomas's The Minister. |
| 1999 | Ben Astley | 'Iago Prytherch and the Rejection of Western Metaphysics' | - | Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays 5 | - | - |
| 1997 | Dennis Brown | 'Vernon Watkins and R.S. Thomas' | Gary Day and Brian Docherty | British Poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s: Politics and Art, | London: Macmillan | - |
| 2003 | David Lloyd | 'Make It New: R.S. Thomas and William Carlos Williams' | Tony Brown | welsh writing in english | The University of Wales Press (distributer) | a year book of critical essays - VOL 8. This issue also includes Jeremy Hooker's 'Poerts, Language and Land: Reflections on English-Language Welsh Poetry since the Second World War.' |
| 2005 | - | 'For Wales, See Landscape: Early R.S.Thomas and the Engilish Topographical Tradition' by M.Wynn Thomas, ''Green as a Leaf': The Religious Nationalism of R.S.Thomas' by Tim MacKenzie and 'Ambivalence and Antithesis: R.S.Thomas's Relationship with Dylan Thomas' by Alisrair Heys | Tony Brown | welsh writing in english: a year book of critical essays vol.10 | The University of Wales Press (distributer) | Includes the greatest critical essays. |
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Notes: The writings in 'the Selected Books on R.S.Thomas' are ommited here. There are numerous number of other critical writings on R.S.Thomas or references about him in various forms including the Web site. Only English writings, except for * indicating Welsh writings, are listed. |