Janet, it was just a mild joke. If people feel a passionate need to admire a poet named Thomas, well, Edward strikes me as the very one. But you can go ahead and like all the Thomases.
Try R. S. Thomas too--I'd rather reread him than most of DT.
A good list, Clive, though I'd add several others---most especially "Roads"--if that's the right title. "Now all roads lead to France"--I can't read that without tears.
I doubt that Yvor Winters ever wrote about Dylan T. but I can just imagine what he might have written. He was a wonderful dismantler of the most feverish romantics and would have had a field day with poor Dylan.
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