Frontiers in Anglo-Welsh Poetry

Anthony Conran

Frontiers in Anglo-Welsh Poetry
Bookmark and Share

Anthony Conran

Distributed for University of Wales Press

292 pages | 8-3/10 x 5-2/5 | © 1997
Paper $25.00 ISBN: 9780708313954 Published June 1997 For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only

In this impressive and important work, Conran examines the impact on a selection of prominent Anglo-Welsh poets, Idris Davies, Dylan Thomas and David Jones among them, of an awareness of 'frontier' - between the Welsh and their dominant partners in Great Britain and within Wales itself, where two ways of life, two civilizations and two languages both divide and subtly interconnect.

This collection of essays offers fresh perspectives on Welsh writing in English as a whole, while also focusing illuminatingly on individual authors. It represents the mature and often controversial views of one of Anglo-Welsh literature's foremost critics.

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
 
Part I
1.    The 'Welsh way of life' and its poetry
2.    Displaced poets of the way of life: W.H. Davies, Huw Menai and A.G. Prys-Jones
3.    The Anglo-Welsh vanishing point: the Eastaway of Edward Thomas
4.    Pilgrims from a desert land: a study of Idris Davies's two sequences and Gwenallt's 'Y meirwon' as responses to the Great Depression
 
Part II
5.    Buried treasure
6.    Gerard Hopkins as an Anglo-Welsh poet
7.    David Jones and the ironic epic
 
Part III
8.    The advent of modernism
9.    'I saw time murder me': Dylan Thomas and the tragic soliloquy
10.  A lonely path: the early poetry of Glyn Jones
11.  Lynette Roberts
 
Part IV
12.  The end of an era
13.  The new frontier: R.S. Thomas
14.  Roland Mathias: headmaster, critic and poet
 
Part V
15.  Exile and elegy in the poetry of T. Harri Jones
16.  Telling the dead go home: the poetry of Leslie Norris
17.  Funland and the work of Dannie Abse
18.  An abdication from time: the Collected Poems of Raymond Garlick
19.  The Referendum and the poetry of Jon Dressel
20.  Tony Curtis and the ways of Death
 
List of authors and their major works
Bibliography
Index
For more information, or to order this book, please visit http://www.press.uchicago.edu
Google preview here

Literature and Literary Criticism: Poetry

You may purchase this title at these fine bookstores. Outside the USA, see our international sales information.

Chicago Manual of Style |

RSS Feed

RSS feed of the latest books from University of Wales Press. RSS Feed