Frontiers in Anglo-Welsh Poetry

Frontiers in Anglo-Welsh Poetry

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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.
Preface
Acknowledgements
 
Part I1.    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