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

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An 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 workon subjects ranging from Welsh Puritanism to Walt Whitman, from religious Dissent to contemporary poetryhas 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Made up of previously unpublished and uncollected essays, interviews, and reviews on Welsh and American writers, the essays in Transatlantic Vistas engage with some of the abiding interests of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.

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M. 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.