As Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has written, R.S. Thomas was—like one of the poet’s spiritual mentors, Soren Kierkegaard—a “great articulator of uneasy faith.” An early poem ...

"The finest Christian poet alive today is the Welsh poet R. S ... It’s a waiting with all the spiritual senses “standing” (in Milton’s metaphor) on alert: eyes wide open, breath held, ears cocked. In ...

R.S. Thomas, 87 ... The peasant isolated on his hillside links Mr. Thomas to his later concentration on the priest facing a silent God, as in his poem "Kneeling": Moments of great calm, Kneeling ...

Bury it then, in history’s sterile dust. The slow years shall tame your tawny lust. R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest whose poems celebrated Welsh nationalism ...