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OverviewAn edited collection of essays, interviews, and book reviews by M. Wynn Thomas. For more than half a century, M. Wynn Thomas has been Wales's foremost literary critic. His ground-breaking work—on subjects ranging from Welsh Puritanism to Walt Whitman, from religious Dissent to contemporary poetry—has opened up new vistas and literary correspondences for his readers. Thomas's writings combine a deep historical knowledge, a commitment to pluralism, and a relationship to the literary text that is both sympathetic in approach and detailed in analysis. Made up of previously unpublished and uncollected essays, interviews, and reviews on Welsh and American writers, the essays in Transatlantic Vistas engage with some of the abiding interests of Thomas's career: Walt Whitman, Dylan Thomas, R. S. Thomas, and American authors such as Charles Bukowski, Rita Dove, Anne Stevenson, and more. Including a foreword by Helen Vendler and essays by Daniel G. Williams and Kirsti Bohata, this volume celebrates M. Wynn Thomas's immense contribution as a literary and intellectual historian, critic, translator, lecturer, institution builder, editor, broadcaster, and literary executor as he enters his eightieth year. Full Product DetailsAuthor: M. Wynn Thomas , Kirsti Bohata , Daniel G. WilliamsPublisher: University of Wales Press Imprint: University of Wales Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.60cm ISBN: 9781837721597ISBN 10: 1837721599 Pages: 408 Publication Date: 15 August 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Helen Vendler Introduction by Daniel G. Williams On Walt Whitman ‘Till I hit upon a name’: Calamus and the language of love Whitman and the Labouring Classes States United and United States: Whitman’s national vision in 1855 Whitman, Tennyson, and the poetry of old age The pioneer: D. H. Lawrence’s Whitman. On Dylan Thomas ‘A Sweet Union?’: Dylan Thomas and Post-War American Poetry. ‘There’s words’: Dylan Thomas, Swansea and language On R. S. Thomas The Real Manafon of R. S. Thomas Bury My Heart: R. S. Thomas and Native America Interviews Rita Dove Jorie Graham Helen Vendler Reviews Dannie Abse Charles Bukowski Jorie Graham Geoffrey Hill Gwyneth Lewis W. S. Merwin Sharon Olds Keidrych Rhys Anne Stevenson Afterword by Kirsti Bohata Bibliography of M. Wynn Thomas since 2004 IndexReviews"""M. Wynn Thomas is such a giant among scholars that the scale of his achievement is difficult to see in the round. His mastery over at least four literary fields--the American, the Welsh-language, Welsh writing in English and the European traditions--is breathtaking. His criticism is above all humane but written with the clarity of the author's commitment to democratic discourse. Without him, our understanding of Wales's literary history and its connection to the world would be definitively impoverished.""--Gwyneth Lewis, former National Poet of Wales ""It has been this way for over forty years now: a new book or essay by M. Wynn Thomas appears, and immediately scholars, teachers, and students of Welsh and American poetry and culture prepare for another set of fresh revelations and challenging new insights, always delivered in Wynn's glorious prose. This is emphatically the case once again with Transatlantic Vistas, a marvellous gathering of Wynn's work--a mix of the new and old and revised and expanded--covering the formidable range of his interests. A book made to honour Wynn on his 80th birthday, Transatlantic Vistas is in fact a gift for all of us who, over the decades, have read, admired, and learned so much from this brilliant critic.""-- ""Ed Folsom, University of Iowa""" Author InformationM. Wynn Thomas is professor of English and the Emyr Humphreys Professor of Welsh Writing in English at Swansea University in Wales. He is the author of several books, including The History of Wales in Twelve Poems and A Map of Love: Twelve Welsh Poems of Romance, Desire and Devotion, also published by Wales University of Wales Press. Kirsti Bohata is professor of English and co-director of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales, Swansea University. Daniel G. Williams is professor of English and co-director of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales, Swansea University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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