R.s. Thomas: Letters To Raymond Garlick 1951-1999
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R. S. Thomas: Letters to Raymond Garlick, 1951-1999 is a landmark publication: a collection of 152 previously unpublished letters that offer a trenchant, vivid and often humorous commentary on Welsh writing in English, English poetry and Welsh politics. As well as providing fascinating insights into Thomass own life and work, the letters include telling observations on the work of other major writers, notably W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill.
The letters also reveal the creative symbiosis at the heart of his enduring friendship with Raymond Garlick, himself a central figure in the landscape of English-language literature in Wales.
Jason Walford Daviess introduction and comprehensive annotation ground the correspondence in its cultural and biographical context, and illuminate the significance of what is the only published collection of R.S. Thomas letters in existence