Andrew D. Scrimgeour

A Masterwork of Doubting-Belief

Arts & Literature

“Over four decades, McEllhenney assembled an extraordinary archive of R. S. Thomas's life and work. Using his skills as a historian, he tracked down the newspapers and magazines where Thomas's poems and writing first appeared, then added meticulous notes and photographs from their extensive correspondence and his visits with Thomas. McEllhenney . . . reveals Thomas as a resolute 'citizen of the hyphen'--living in the tensions of Welshness-Englishness, artist-scientist, high church-low church, pastor-poet, poet-theologian, and most importantly, doubter-believer.”