Thomas, R. George.

Person

Thomas, R. George.

• Thomas, R. George (Richard George), 1914-
• Thomas, Richard George

1914-2001

Professor Richard George Thomas, literary critic and editor, was born in the mining village of Pontlotyn, Glamorgan, in 1914. He was educated at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff, where he graduated in English. Following a period spent in Iceland during the Second World War, he returned to Wales in 1946 to teach medieval and eighteenth century literature, and was appointed Professor of English Language and Literature at University College Cardiff, in 1967. His main academic interest was the study of the work of the poet Edward Thomas (1878-1917). His monograph, Edward Thomas, in the Writers of Wales series, was published in 1972, followed by his edition of The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1978), Edward Thomas: A Portrait (Oxford University Press, 1985), and Edward Thomas: Selected Letters (Oxford University Press, 1995). R. George Thomas died at Cardiff, 23 February 2001.

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