In school, we are taught that Thomas’ is the proper way to write about something that belongs to Thomas. However, language is always developing and making changes, which is why this form isn’t used as often as it used to be. Rudd, Andrew. “ ‘Not to the Bible but to Wallace Stevens’: What R.S. Thomas Found There”. PN Review 30.4 (March -April 2004): 49-51. [See also the letter in response from Tony Brown, “Thomas’s Homage to Stevens” PN Review 30.6 (July-August 2004): 4.] Sargent, Andrew. “R.S. Thomas: The Anglican Compromise”. Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature. 67.1 (Winter 2015): 41-55. Kennedy, David. “‘Under a shower of bird-notes: R.S. Thomas’s Elegaic Poems for Elsi”. English Vol. 63, No. 243: 296-312.

Canon Immigrant: Meta example. Andrew Brenner wrote many stories for the promotional magazines. Not only were some of these adapted into actual episodes in Seasons Three and Five, but Brenner eventually took over as lead writer for the show itself come Season Seventeen.For the Failure of Language There is No Redress’: R.S. Thomas, Poetry and Prayer”, Ecstasy and Understanding: Religious Awareness in English Poetry from the Late Victorian to the Modern Period, ed. Adrian Grafe. London: Continuum, 2008. ISBN 978-0-82649-864-9 Dafydd, Fflur. “‘This is I; there is nothing else’: R.S. Thomas and Hugh MacDiarmid”. Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays 11 (2006-2007): 102-121.

Barnie, John, ed. Encounters with R.S. Swansea: H’mm Foundation, 2103. 102 p. ISBN 978-0-9927560-0-0. [Short essays by those who knew him, including Gwyneth Lewis, M.Wynn Thomas, Gillian Clarke, Peter Finch, Jon Gower and Menna Elfyn.]

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Conforming OOC Moment: In "Harvey To The Rescue", several of the engines are hostile toward Harvey and insult him for having a crane arm, including the normally wise and kindhearted Edward. Alun-Jones, Deborah. The Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory. London: Thames & Hudson, 2013. Ch. 6, “The Deep Peace of Wild Places: R.S. Thomas at Manafon”, pp. 133-55. Wales: a problem of translation. The 1996 Adam Lecture, given on 8 February 1996 at King’s College, London. London: Centre for 20th Century Cultural Studies, Adam Archive Publications, 1996. 18 p. ISBN: 1-897747-08-X.