The word recusant was originally used to describe those Catholics whose names were entered on registers because of their refusal to attend Anglican services during the reign of Elizabeth I, but the term recusant writings covers writing by Catholics, whether open or covert. For more than a hundred years after the accession of Elizabeth in 1588, the publication of Catholic books was prohibited by law. Geraint Bowen s book is the first to be published on writing by Welsh recusants.
Welsh recusant writing, published abroad, on secret presses at home, or, as was often the case, remaining in...
The word recusant was originally used to describe those Catholics whose names were entered on registers because of their refusal to attend Anglican...
After gaining an Oxford fellowship at the age of twenty-one, Goronwy Rees (1909-79) went on to write for the "Guardian" and the "Spectator" before becoming Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1953. A Marxist intellectual turned cold warrior, who also claimed that writing books is the only thing I m serious about, he became a full-time writer in 1957 following his acrimonious resignation from Aberystwyth over revelations about his friendship with Guy Burgess. This first study of Rees as author sets his writings in the context of a dramatically eventful life.
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After gaining an Oxford fellowship at the age of twenty-one, Goronwy Rees (1909-79) went on to write for the "Guardian" and the "Spectator" before ...
At his death in 2000, R. S. Thomas was widely considered to be one of the major poets of the English-speaking world and had been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. An outspoken Welsh nationalist, he was also for many years a priest in the Anglican Church in Wales. At the same time his later poetry, considered by many as amongst the finest religious poetry written in the twentieth century, is frequently a profound and anguished search for an elusive God in our contemporary world of globalized consumerism and technology. Tony Brown's study discusses the whole range of R. S....
At his death in 2000, R. S. Thomas was widely considered to be one of the major poets of the English-speaking world and had been nominated for the Nob...
Published in the centenary year of Ben Bowen's death, this is the first extended, dispassionate account of the life and work of the Treorci-born poet. When Bowen died aged twenty-four in 1903, the Welsh literary establishment predicted his immortality. Yet, just a generation later, he had become little more than a footnote in the history of nineteenth-century poetry. In this study, Robin Chapman reveals Bowen's short-lived fame and subsequent obscurity as a product both of Bowen's precocious sense of himself as a great poet and of a Wales that fed that assumption. He traces Bowen's escape...
Published in the centenary year of Ben Bowen's death, this is the first extended, dispassionate account of the life and work of the Treorci-born poet....
