Contemporary Review, October 1st, 1997
'You can write your answers later,' Thomas once remarked to a visiting reporter. It was no chance discourtesy, but a considered challenge to those who he feels will not understand. No wonder then that R.S. Thomas, poet and pastor, has the reputation of a difficult man. He fears the intrusion of godless elsewhere into a sacred Wales. And so he encourages the image of the mad old man, the hermit - bardd in his mountain enclave, a man of truth but not of charm. He seems satisfied with so negative a public reputation, yet he affirms the joy of crying out with affirmation of the beauty of the world...
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