This revised and expanded second edition of Critical Writings on R.S. Thomas includes seven essays from the original 1982 volume as well as a selection of seven new essays. These varied and illuminating texts outline aspects of R.S. Thomas’s writing career from his first volume, The Stones of the Field, in 1946 to his latest collection, Counterpoint in 1990. Also included is an extensive updated bibliography of the critical material on R.S. Thomas. This volume offers a lively and valuable assessment of R.S. Thomas’s literary achievement to date.