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Roland Mathias

Author : Sam Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Roland Mathias written by Sam Adams and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roland Mathias has been one of the foremost literary figures in post-war Wales, playing a crucial role in the creation of a distinctive Anglo-Welsh literary and cultural identity. A founder of Dock Leaves (later renamed The Anglo-Welsh Review), he edited the magazine between 1961 and 1976, a task which he combined with a busy career as an educationalist and prolific writing in both creative and critical modes. His five volumes of poetry are characterized by a meticulous craftsmanship. They also express at the most profound level his unique personal vision, imbued with a deeply-held yet questioning religious belief, a strong sense of history and place, and a progressively stronger identification with Wales. This first book-length account of his extraordinarily busy life and writing career reveals the origins and depth of his commitment to peace, to moral principles and to a Welsh literature in the English language.

The Collected Poems of Roland Mathias

Author : Roland Mathias
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Poems of Roland Mathias written by Roland Mathias and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roland Mathias is one of the most important writers to emerge in Wales since the Second World War. His work as a short-story writer, editor and literary critic is highly regarded, and he has made a notable contribution to the cultural life of Wales as a scholar and historian. However, he is first and foremost a poet. His poetry, which focusses on the intertwined concerns of family, mutability, history and landscape, is characterized by verbal inventiveness, skilful use of metre and honesty of observation. The Collected Poems of Roland Mathias traces his poetic development, from his first collection, Days Enduring (1942), to his most recent, A Field at Vallorcines (1996). Edited with the full cooperation of the author, it contains a number of previously unpublished works. In the introduction, Sam Adams discusses the fundamental stylistic and thematic aspects of the poetry, while his full annotations throw light on the composition of the poems, offer explanations of the many historical and topographical allusions they contain and help to elucidate occasional obscurities in the writing.

Keeping the Ancient Way

Author : Robert Wilcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800859740
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Keeping the Ancient Way written by Robert Wilcher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the editors of the new complete works of Henry Vaughan, Keeping the Ancient Way is the first book-length study of the poet by a single author for twenty years. It deals with a number of key topics that are central to the understanding and appreciation of this major seventeenth-century writer. These include his debt to the hermetic philosophy espoused by his twin brother (the alchemist, Thomas Vaughan); his royalist allegiance in the Civil War; his loyalty to the outlawed Church of England during the Interregnum; the unusual degree of intertextuality in his poetry (especially with the Scriptures and the devotional lyrics of George Herbert); and his literary treatment of the natural world (which has been variously interpreted from Christian, proto-Romantic, and ecological perspectives). Each of the chapters is self-contained and places its topic in relation to past and current critical debates, but the book is organized so that the biographical, intellectual, and political focus of Part One informs the discussion of poetic craftsmanship in Part Two. A wealth of historical information and close critical readings provide an accessible introduction to the poet and his period for students and general readers alike. The up-to-date scholarship will also be of interest to specialists in the literature and history of the Civil War and Interregnum.

Reading Old Friends

Author : John Matthias
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438412231
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Reading Old Friends written by John Matthias and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-02-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Old Friends includes essays, reviews, and poems on poetics. Matthias, who has spent much time in England, concentrates on British poetry ranging from late modernist figures such as David Jones and Hugh MacDiarmid to contemporaries such as Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney, Michael Hamburger, and John Fuller. He also seeks to establish, or re-establish, meaningful trans-Atlantic connections between Wendell Berry and Jeremy Hooker, for example, or between Robert Duncan and David Jones. Other, more generally acknowledged figures, are also discussed, including Wordsworth, Pope, Crabbe, Constable, Turner, Britten, Tippet, Lowell, Auden, and Berryman. The book also contains three poems on poetics that engage many of the theoretical issues left implicit in most of the essays.

Writing on the Edge

Author : David T. Lloyd
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004485023
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Writing on the Edge written by David T. Lloyd and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complex and controversial issues have accompanied the development of English-language literature in Wales, generating a continuing debate over the nature of Welsh writing in English. The main issues include the claim of some Welsh-language writers to represent the only authentic literature of Wales, the question of whether or not an extended literary tradition in English has existed in Wales, the absence (until fairly recently) of a publishing apparatus for English-language writers, the rise of a Welsh nationalism committed to preserving the Welsh language, and the question of whether English-language literature in Wales can be distinguished from English literature proper. The primary impulse for the interviews with the thirteen writers and editors in Writing on the Edge was to explore these and other issues relating to the literary and cultural identity in Wales in the last decade. The book's title reflects these ongoing debates about the nature and direction of contemporary Welsh literature in English, which is often perceived as peripheral both to Welsh-speaking Wales and to the literary culture of England. As one of the contributors to the volume says This is what it is to be Welsh ... It's an edge. There's no moment of life in Wales that hasn't got that edge, unless you decide you're not Welsh.

In the Shadow of the Pulpit

Author : M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708323421
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Pulpit written by M. Wynn Thomas and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from the nineteenth-century to the present, this book explores several central aspects of the ways in which the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales has responded to what was, for a crucial period of a century or so, the dominant culture of Wales: the culture of Welsh Nonconformity. In the introduction, the author reflects on why no sustained attempt has hitherto been made to investigate one of the formative cultural influences on modern 'Anglo-Welsh' literature, the Nonconformist inheritance. The importance of addressing this strange and significant cultural deficit is then explained, and a preliminary attempt made to capture something of the spirit of Welsh Nonconformity. The succeeding chapters address and seek to answer such questions as: What exactly did the Welsh chapels believe and do? Why have the English-language writers of Wales, from Caradoc Evans and Dylan Thomas to R.S. Thomas and the authors of today, been so fascinated by them? How accurate are the impressions we've been given of chapel life and chapel people in the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales? The answers offered may alter our views both of the Welsh Nonconformist past and of Welsh writing in English. One of the ideas advanced is that many of Wales' most important writers went to war with the preachers in their texts, and that their work is therefore the site of cultural struggle. Theirs was a war in words waged to determine who would have the last word on modern Welsh experience.

R.S. Thomas

Author : M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708326617
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book R.S. Thomas written by M. Wynn Thomas and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study places the work of a major religious poet of the late twentieth century in a number of striking new perspectives that allow him to be viewed for the first time as an 'alternative' war poet, a conscience-stricken pacifist, a jealously opportunistic student of art, and an experimental biographer of the modern soul. Published to mark the centenary of the ‘ogre of Wales’, this volume deals with the idées fixes that serially possessed the fiercely intense imagination of R. S. Thomas: Iago Prytherch, Wales, his family and, of course, a vexingly elusive deity. Here, these familiar obsessions are set in several unusual contexts that bring Thomas’s poetry into startling new relief. The war poetry is considered alongside the poet’s early relationship to the English topographical tradition; comparisons with Borges and Levertov underline the international dimensions of the poetry’s concerns; the intriguing ‘secret code’ of some of Thomas’s Welsh-language references is cracked; and his painting-poems (including several hitherto unpublished) are brought centre-stage from the peripheries to which they have been routinely relegated.

The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010

Author : Edward Larrissy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107090660
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010 written by Edward Larrissy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War. Focusing on famous and neglected names alike, from Dylan Thomas to John Agard, leading scholars provide readers with insight into the ongoing importance and profundity of post-war poetry.

Welsh Periodicals in English 1882-2012

Author : Malcolm Ballin
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708326153
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Welsh Periodicals in English 1882-2012 written by Malcolm Ballin and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book about Welsh periodicals in English to show how they have helped the development of Welsh writers and have provoked debate about key cultural and political issues in Wales.

Letters from Wales

Author : Sam Adams
Publisher : Parthian Books
ISBN 13 : 1914595084
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Wales written by Sam Adams and published by Parthian Books. This book was released on 2023-04-07 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Letters from Wales stands alone as an invaluable guide to Welsh writing.' – Sam Young, Wales Arts Review 'In these columns, as impressive for their depth as they are for their intellectual breadth, Adams analyses the work of acclaimed Welsh writers ... with scholarly panache' – Joshua Rees, Buzz Magazine 'illuminating and entertaining' – Jon Gower, Nation.Cymru Since 1996, Sam Adams's 'Letter from Wales' column has been appearing in PN Review, one of the most highly-regarded UK poetry magazines, offering insight and appreciation of Welsh writing, culture and history. This landmark volume collects these letters – a quarter century of work – and offers one of the most unique, independent and passionate critical voices on the writing and cultural output of Wales during this period. Here you will find erudite appreciations of the work of a wide range of recent and contemporary Welsh writers from Gillian Clarke to Roland Mathias, RS Thomas to Rhian Edwards. Alongside this, Adams offers us lyric essays to Welsh history, and clear-eyed examinations of the institutions of Welsh culture. Collected for the first time in this volume, the 'letters' are among the most significant and sustained attempts during this period to present Welsh writing to an audience throughout the UK and beyond.

Emyr Humphreys

Author : Diane Green
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 070832259X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Emyr Humphreys written by Diane Green and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores in detail the novels written by Emyr Humphreys during a timespan of over fifty years, from his first, A Little Kingdom, published in 1946, to The Gift of a Daughter, published in 1998. An early chapter comprises a literary biography with the following chapters devoted to: the early novels including A Toy Epic; a separate examination of Outside the House of Baal, considered by many to be his finest achievement; his use of Celtic myth as a patterning device; similarly his use of Welsh history is covered in 2 chapters; and finally his use of various postcolonial strategies. It also contains an extensive bibliography of work by and about Emyr Humphreys.

Miraculous Simplicity

Author : William V. Davis
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1682261913
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Miraculous Simplicity written by William V. Davis and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1993-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pondering now the being and nature of God, now the mystery of time, now the assault of contemporary lifestyles on the natural world, R. S. Thomas’s poetry and prose reflect his Welsh heritage and his determination to be Welsh. Moved by his own personal attraction to the work of Thomas and guided by his careful reading of it, William V. Davis brings us this excellent collection of essays exploring the distinguished yet controversial poet-priest. In the autobiographical essay, Thomas reveals his passion for his homeland and his ever-present hunger for spiritual and natural exploration: As I stood in the sun and the sea wind, with my shadow falling upon those rocks, I certainly was reminded of the transience of human existence, and my own in particular. As Pindar put it: “A dream about a shadow is man.” I began to ponder more the being and nature of God and his relation to the late twentieth-century situation, which science and technology had created in the western world. Where did the ancient world of rock and ocean fit into an environment in which nuclear physics and the computer were playing an increasingly prominent part? . . .

R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams

Author : M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786839482
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams written by M. Wynn Thomas and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study places the internationally renowned poetry of two major figures, R. S. Thomas and Rowan Williams, in a new and illuminating context. It demonstrates how theological convictions are embodied in the very form and texture of poems. The book draws attention to a cultural phenomenon of European resonance, because it runs counter to established secular practice in the UK, in Western Europe and in the US.

Poet of the Medieval Modern

Author : Francesca Brooks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198860137
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Poet of the Medieval Modern written by Francesca Brooks and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early Middle Ages provided twentieth-century poets with the material to re-imagine and rework local, religious, and national identities in their writing. Poet of the Medieval Modern focuses on a key figure within this tradition, the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974): representing the first extended study of the influence of early medieval English culture and history on Jones and his novel-length late modernist poem The Anathemata (1952). Jones's second major poetic project after In Parenthesis (1937), The Anathemata fuses Jones's visual and verbal arts to write a Catholic history of Britain as told through the history of man-as-artist. Drawing on unpublished archival material including manuscripts, sketches, correspondence, and, most significantly, the marginalia from David Jones's Library, this volume reads with Jones in order to trouble the distinction between poetry and scholarship. Placing this underappreciated figure firmly at the centre of new developments in Modernist and Medieval Studies, Poet of the Medieval Modern brings the two fields into dialogue and argues that Jones uses the textual and material culture of the early Middle Ages--including Old English prose and poetry, Anglo-Latin hagiography, early medieval stone sculpture, manuscripts, and historiography--to re-envision British Catholic identity in the twentieth-century long poem. Jones returned to the English record to seek out those moments where the histories of the Welsh had been elided or erased. At a time when the Middle Ages are increasingly weaponised in far-right and nationalist political discourse, the book offers a timely discussion of how the early medieval past has been resourced to both shore-up and challenge English hegemonies across modern British culture.

Eutopia

Author : M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786836165
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Eutopia written by M. Wynn Thomas and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a timely Welsh antidote to Brexit. It is packed with original materials but is written in a highly accessible style by an author who recently won a Welsh Book of the Year award. It throws a wholly new light on Wales, revealing a country that has long been internationalist in cultural outlook, well prepared to look in directions other than that of England.

Ruth Bidgood

Author : Matthew Jarvis
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708325238
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Ruth Bidgood written by Matthew Jarvis and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length scholarly study of the prize-winning poet Ruth Bidgood, a writer who is best known for her long-term literary engagement with the landscape and communities of the mid-Wales region she has made her home.

Comparative Criticism: Volume 19, Literary Devolution: Writing in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England

Author : E. S. Shaffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521592512
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Criticism: Volume 19, Literary Devolution: Writing in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England written by E. S. Shaffer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-02 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of volume 19 is 'Literary Devolution: Writing Now in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England', and includes poetry from Scotland, with essays by David Kinloch and Christopher Whyte on Socttish Gaelic; and poetry from Wales with essays by Jerry Hunter and Sam Adams; from Ireland, three cantos of John Montague's new poem on David Jones, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's Gaelic poetry translated by Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon and Medbh McGuickan, and a new play by Vincent Woods, acclaimed in performance and published here for the first time; and English poetry together with new fiction by Iain Sinclair. It also includes an interview with Nathaniel Tarn, editor of innovative Cape Goliard Editions. Translation from European poets into English and Scottish is a seminal feature of poetry in this period, represented here by translation from the Polish by Seamus Heaney, from Mayakovsky by Edwin Morgan, from Rimbaud and Mandelstam by Alistair Mackie; and Sylvia Plath's translations from the French reviewed by Alistair Elliot.