A guide to Welsh literature

This is the fourth in a series of volumes outlining the history and development of Welsh literature from its beginnings in the sixth century to the present day. This collection of essays covers the eighteenth century and the first decade of the nineteenth, and provides a comprehensive and informative introduction to the Welsh literature of that period. The volume includes essays giving a general literary and social overview as well as studies of the most important individual writers. Writers of prose, poetry, hymns and dramatic interludes scholars and antiquarians all have their place in the volume, including some of the most influential and intriguing characters of their day such as Williams Pantycelyn, the Morris brothers, Goronwy Owen and Iolo Morganwg. The renaissance of the classical tradition, the rich vein of folk culture, the great religious poetry, the awakening of interest in Celticism, and the founding of literary and cultural activity which are examined and assessed by leading authorities in their field. The book brings together in one volume much material which is otherwise unavailable to the English-speaking reader, and many of the chapters embody the fruits of new research and fresh critical thinking.

A Guide to Welsh Literature

Branwen Jarvis

University of Wales Press

Liberal Studies and Higher Technology

Laurence Davies

The beginnings of Welsh poetry: studies,

Ifor and Bromwich Rachel (ed) Williams

Literature & Fiction

Brut y Tywysogyon or The Chronicle of the Princes was described by Sir J. E. Lloyd as `the greatest monument of Welsh historiography in the Middle Ages'.  It has long been recognised as a source of prime importance for the history of medieval Wales and as one which supplies details of interest about contemporary events in England and elsewhere. Of the original thirteenth-century Latin text no copy has survived, but three independent Welsh translations are extant. In this volume, Professor Thomas Jones (1910-72) gives an English translation of the Peniarth MS. 20 version, which is the most complete of the three and which was published in full for the first time in 1941. In his Introduction, Professor Jones surveys the work of earlier scholars. He discusses the contents, origin, and sources of the chronicle and describes the special characteristics of the Peniarth MS. 20 version. The detailed notes show the many discrepancies in the three Welsh versions as compared with one another and, used in conjunction with the text, they supply the combined substantial evidence of three Welsh versions and so of the lost Latin chronicles that underlie them.

Brut y tywysogyon, or, The chronicle of the princes: Peniarth Ms. 20 version (History and law series / Board of Celtic Studies, University of Wales)

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Life in a Welsh Countryside

Politics & Social Sciences

Alwyn D. Rees

Anthropology

A Short Introduction to the Study of Comparative Grammar (Indo-European)

T.Hudson- Williams

Canu Llywarch Hen

Llywarch, Hen

Flintshire Place-Names

Ellis Davies

The Cultic Prophet in Ancient Israel

Aubrey Rodway Johnson

Religion & Spirituality

The One and the Many in the Israelite Conception of God [Jan 01, 1961] Johnson, Aubrey Rodway ...

The One and the Many in the Israelite Conception of God

Aubrey R. Johnson

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