Transatlantic Vistas — Engagements with the Literatures of Wales and the United States

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Mae Transatlantic Vistas yn ddathliad o waith yr Athro M. Wynn Thomas - un o brif feirniaid llenyddol Cymru - ym mlwyddyn ei ben blwydd yn bedwar ugain oed. Mae'r casgliad o draethodau yn trafod llenyddiaeth Gymreig ac Americanaidd - o R. S. Thomas i Rita Dive a Charles Bukowski.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Transatlantic Vistas is a celebration of Professor M. Wynn Thomas - Wales's foremost literary critic - in his eightieth year. As with Thomas's previous ground-breaking publications, the writings collected here on Welsh and American literatures - ranging from R. S. Thomas to Rita Dive and Charles Bukowski - will open new vistas and comparative perspectives for their readers.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 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 Index

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

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.