M. Wynn Thomas is Professor of English and Emyr Humphreys Professor of English at Swansea University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and is the author of twenty books on American poetry and on the two literatures of Wales.

• Introduction1The Scarlet Woman: Lynette Roberts2Margiad Evans and Eudora Welty: a confluence of imaginations3‘A Grand Harlequinade’: the border writing of Nigel Heseltine4‘There’s words’: Dylan Thomas, Swansea and Language5‘A vast assemblage of unease’: Emyr Humphreys’s A Man’s Estate6Outside the House of Baal: the evolution of a major novel7‘Yr Hen Fam’: R. S. Thomas and the Church in Wales8R. S. Thomas, ‘Retired Christian’9Vernon Watkins, Taliesin in Gower10‘Dubious Affinities’: Leslie Norris’s Welsh-English translations11Staying to mind things; Gillian Clarke’s early poetry

'In a characteristically generous and discerning collection of essays, M. Wynn Thomas ranges widely through Welsh writing in English, displaying in the process his marvellous command of language. This is criticism at its best, as sociable as it is perceptive.'- Catherine Belsey, Professor Emeritus in English, Swansea University; 'M. Wynn Thomas is more than just Wales's finest and most perceptive critic - he is one of the rare intellectuals who can be said to have founded a discipline, and nurtured it for others. All That Is Wales bears the hallmarks of Thomas's criticism - rigorously-written, closely-read and culturally-alive.'- Patrick McGuinness, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Oxford

M. Wynn Thomas is Professor of English and Emyr Humphreys Professor of English at Swansea University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and is the author of twenty books on American poetry and on the two literatures of Wales.

• Introduction1The Scarlet Woman: Lynette Roberts2Margiad Evans and Eudora Welty: a confluence of imaginations3‘A Grand Harlequinade’: the border writing of Nigel Heseltine4‘There’s words’: Dylan Thomas, Swansea and Language5‘A vast assemblage of unease’: Emyr Humphreys’s A Man’s Estate6Outside the House of Baal: the evolution of a major novel7‘Yr Hen Fam’: R. S. Thomas and the Church in Wales8R. S. Thomas, ‘Retired Christian’9Vernon Watkins, Taliesin in Gower10‘Dubious Affinities’: Leslie Norris’s Welsh-English translations11Staying to mind things; Gillian Clarke’s early poetry

'In a characteristically generous and discerning collection of essays, M. Wynn Thomas ranges widely through Welsh writing in English, displaying in the process his marvellous command of language. This is criticism at its best, as sociable as it is perceptive.'- Catherine Belsey, Professor Emeritus in English, Swansea University; 'M. Wynn Thomas is more than just Wales's finest and most perceptive critic - he is one of the rare intellectuals who can be said to have founded a discipline, and nurtured it for others. All That Is Wales bears the hallmarks of Thomas's criticism - rigorously-written, closely-read and culturally-alive.'- Patrick McGuinness, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Oxford

M. Wynn Thomas is Professor of English and Emyr Humphreys Professor of English at Swansea University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and is the author of twenty books on American poetry and on the two literatures of Wales.

• Introduction1The Scarlet Woman: Lynette Roberts2Margiad Evans and Eudora Welty: a confluence of imaginations3‘A Grand Harlequinade’: the border writing of Nigel Heseltine4‘There’s words’: Dylan Thomas, Swansea and Language5‘A vast assemblage of unease’: Emyr Humphreys’s A Man’s Estate6Outside the House of Baal: the evolution of a major novel7‘Yr Hen Fam’: R. S. Thomas and the Church in Wales8R. S. Thomas, ‘Retired Christian’9Vernon Watkins, Taliesin in Gower10‘Dubious Affinities’: Leslie Norris’s Welsh-English translations11Staying to mind things; Gillian Clarke’s early poetry

'In a characteristically generous and discerning collection of essays, M. Wynn Thomas ranges widely through Welsh writing in English, displaying in the process his marvellous command of language. This is criticism at its best, as sociable as it is perceptive.'- Catherine Belsey, Professor Emeritus in English, Swansea University; 'M. Wynn Thomas is more than just Wales's finest and most perceptive critic - he is one of the rare intellectuals who can be said to have founded a discipline, and nurtured it for others. All That Is Wales bears the hallmarks of Thomas's criticism - rigorously-written, closely-read and culturally-alive.'- Patrick McGuinness, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Oxford