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The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry: 20th-Century Welsh-Language Poetry in Translation
Elfyn Menna
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Paperback. This selection brings together poets of every hue: from magisterial figures like T Gwynn Jones, R Williams Parry and Saunders Lewis to folk poets such as Alun Cilie and Dic Jones; from cerebral poets Pennar Davies and Bobi Jones to popular entertainers Geraint Lovgreen and Ifor ap Glyn. Editor(s): Elfyn, Menna; Rowland, John. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 602.
Welsh is the oldest surviving Celtic language, and the most flourishing. For around fifteen centuries Welsh poets have expressed an intense awareness of what it is like to be human in this part of the world in poems of extraordinary range and depth. And despite the global tendency towards homogenisation, Welsh poets have fought back, drawing inspiration from both the traditional and the contemporary to forge a new and rainbow-like modernism. This wide-ranging anthology of 20th-century Welsh-language poetry in English translation – by far the most comprehensive of its kind – will be a revelation for most readers. It will ... Read more
Welsh is the oldest surviving Celtic language, and the most flourishing. For around fifteen centuries Welsh poets have expressed an intense awareness of what it is like to be human in this part of the world in poems of extraordinary range and depth. And despite the global tendency towards homogenisation, Welsh poets have fought back, drawing inspiration from both the traditional and the contemporary to forge a new and rainbow-like modernism. This wide-ranging anthology of 20th-century Welsh-language poetry in English translation – by far the most comprehensive of its kind – will be a revelation for most readers. It will ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852245498
SKU
V9781852245498
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