An edited collection of essays interviews and book reviews by M. Wynn Thomas. For more than half a century M. Wynn Thomas has been Waless foremost literary critic. His groundbreaking work on subjects ranging from Welsh Puritanism to Walt Whitman from religious Dissent to contemporary poetry has opened up new vistas and literary correspondences for his readers. Thomass writings combine a deep historical knowledge a commitment to pluralism and a relationship to the literary text that is both sympathetic in approach and detailed in analysis. Made up of previously unpublished and uncollected essays interviews and reviews on Welsh and American writers the writings in Transatlantic Vistas engage with some of the abiding interests of Thomass career Walt Whitman Dylan Thomas R. S. Thomas and American authors such as Charles Bukowski Rita Dove Anne Stevenson and more. Including a foreword by Helen Vendler and essays by Daniel G. Williams and Kirsti Bohata this volume celebrates M. Wynn Thomass immense contribution as a literary and intellectual historian critic translator lecturer institution builder editor broadcaster and literary executor as he enters his eightieth year.