The Writers of Wales Database

DAVIES, WALFORD

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Literary Critic and University Professor. Walford was born in Pontyberem, and educated in the University of Oxford. He is a former Senior Lecturer at St. Anne’s College, Oxford. Walford was Director of the Department of Continuing Education, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (1976–1997), is holder of a personal chair in English Literature of the University of Wales and is currently Visiting Professor of English, University of Rio Grande, Ohio. He is a Fellow of Academi.

Selected Publications:
Dylan Thomas (Writers of Wales Series) (University of Wales Press, 1972; 1990)
Twentieth Century Poetry (Course A306) (Open University Press, 1976)
Dylan Thomas (Open Guides to Literature) (Open University Press, 1986)
Dylan Thomas: The Poet in His Chains (The W.D. Thomas Memorial Lecture) (University College of Swansea, 1987)

Contributed to:
Dylan Thomas: New Critical Essays (editor) (Littlehampton Book Services, 1972)
Creativity and Self-Deception (editor) (Welsh Arts Council, 1980)

Critical editions of the following works by Dylan Thomas
Early Prose Writings (Dent, 1971)
The Collected Stories (Dent, 1983)
Deaths and Entrances (Gwasg Gregynog, 1984)
Collected Poems (co-writer) (Dent, 1988)
Selected Poems (Dent, 1993; 1997)
Under Milk Wood (Dent, 1995; Penguin, 2000)
Dylan Thomas: Everyman Poetry (Phoenix, 1997)
Selected Poems of Dylan Thomas (Penguin, 2000)

Other critical editions
Wordsworth: Selected Poems (Dent, 1975; 1990)
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Poems (Dent, 1979) 
Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems (Littlehampton Book Services, 1982)
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poetry and Prose (1999)