Transatlantic Vistas

M. Wynn Thomas is Emyr Humphreys Professor of Welsh Writing in English at Swansea University.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.

• AcknowledgmentsForeword by Helen VendlerIntroduction by Daniel G. WilliamsOn Walt Whitman‘Till I hit upon a name’: Calamus and the language of loveWhitman and the Labouring ClassesStates United and United States: Whitman’s national vision in 1855Whitman, Tennyson, and the poetry of old ageThe 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 languageOn R. S. ThomasThe Real Manafon of R. S. ThomasBury My Heart: R. S. Thomas and Native AmericaInterviewsRita DoveJorie GrahamHelen VendlerReviewsDannie AbseCharles BukowskiJorie GrahamGeoffrey HillGwyneth LewisW. S. MerwinSharon OldsKeidrych RhysAnne StevensonAfterword by Kirsti BohataBibliography of M. Wynn Thomas since 2004Index

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 authors commitment to democratic discourse. Without him, our understanding of Waless literary history and its connection to the world would be definitively impoverished.