Author: Harold Idris Bell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Welsh Poems of the Twentieth Century in English Verse
Author: Harold Idris Bell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry
Author: Menna Elfyn
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
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 dispel the romantic images of Welsh poets as bards or druids and blow away any preconceived mists of Celtic twilight. This poetry is full of vitality, combining old craftsmanship and daring innovation, humour and angst, the oral and the literary. The 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 Løvgreen and Ifor ap Glyn. There are Chaplinesque poets, rebellious and subversive ones, lyrical voices and storytellers. The variety is enormous: from Welsh performance poetry to song lyrics; from the wry social comment of Grahame Davies to the contemporary parables of Gwyneth Lewis, who writes different kinds of poems in Welsh and English. This exuberant chorus of voices from the margins of Europe proves that poetry in this minority language is far from stagnant. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
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 dispel the romantic images of Welsh poets as bards or druids and blow away any preconceived mists of Celtic twilight. This poetry is full of vitality, combining old craftsmanship and daring innovation, humour and angst, the oral and the literary. The 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 Løvgreen and Ifor ap Glyn. There are Chaplinesque poets, rebellious and subversive ones, lyrical voices and storytellers. The variety is enormous: from Welsh performance poetry to song lyrics; from the wry social comment of Grahame Davies to the contemporary parables of Gwyneth Lewis, who writes different kinds of poems in Welsh and English. This exuberant chorus of voices from the margins of Europe proves that poetry in this minority language is far from stagnant. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.
Twentieth Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry
Author: Dannie Abse
Publisher: Seren Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
"This definitive collection displays the beauty and elegance of the best in Welsh poetry from the 20th century. Chosen by one of Wales's most celebrated contemporary poets, this compilation spans the breadth of Welsh life, including the poetry of Georgian influenced W. H. Davies and Edward Thomas, Welsh-language enthusiasts Tony Conran and Nigel Jenkins, and politically inspired Tony Curtis and Duncan Bush. Hundreds of other important Welsh poets are also represented, including John Ormond, Leslie Norris, Harry Webb, Jean Earle, and Gwyneth Lewis."
Publisher: Seren Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
"This definitive collection displays the beauty and elegance of the best in Welsh poetry from the 20th century. Chosen by one of Wales's most celebrated contemporary poets, this compilation spans the breadth of Welsh life, including the poetry of Georgian influenced W. H. Davies and Edward Thomas, Welsh-language enthusiasts Tony Conran and Nigel Jenkins, and politically inspired Tony Curtis and Duncan Bush. Hundreds of other important Welsh poets are also represented, including John Ormond, Leslie Norris, Harry Webb, Jean Earle, and Gwyneth Lewis."
The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation
Author: Peter France
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199247844
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
This book, written by a team of experts from many countries, provides a comprehensive account of the ways in which translation has brought the major literature of the world into English-speaking culture. Part I discusses theoretical issues and gives an overview of the history of translation into English. Part II, the bulk of the work, arranged by language of origin, offers critical discussions, with bibliographies, of the translation history of specific texts (e.g. the Koran, the Kalevala), authors (e.g. Lucretius, Dostoevsky), genres (e.g. Chinese poetry, twentieth-century Italian prose) and national literatures (e.g. Hungarian, Afrikaans).
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199247844
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
This book, written by a team of experts from many countries, provides a comprehensive account of the ways in which translation has brought the major literature of the world into English-speaking culture. Part I discusses theoretical issues and gives an overview of the history of translation into English. Part II, the bulk of the work, arranged by language of origin, offers critical discussions, with bibliographies, of the translation history of specific texts (e.g. the Koran, the Kalevala), authors (e.g. Lucretius, Dostoevsky), genres (e.g. Chinese poetry, twentieth-century Italian prose) and national literatures (e.g. Hungarian, Afrikaans).
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry
Author: Neil Corcoran
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113982810X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113982810X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.
A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry
Author: Neil Roberts
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781405113618
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry were exhausted and finite. However, the volume also looks forward to the poetry and readings that the new century will bring. The Companion embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries; a century which began with a bipolar transatlantic connection in modernism and ended with the decentred heterogeneity of post-colonialism. Representation of the 'canonical' and the 'marginal' is therefore balanced, including the full integration of women poets and feminist approaches and the in-depth treatment of post-colonial poets from various national traditions. Discussion of context, intertextualities and formal approaches illustrates the increasing self-consciousness and self-reflexivity of the period, whilst a 'Readings' section offers new readings of key selected texts. The volume as a whole offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781405113618
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry were exhausted and finite. However, the volume also looks forward to the poetry and readings that the new century will bring. The Companion embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries; a century which began with a bipolar transatlantic connection in modernism and ended with the decentred heterogeneity of post-colonialism. Representation of the 'canonical' and the 'marginal' is therefore balanced, including the full integration of women poets and feminist approaches and the in-depth treatment of post-colonial poets from various national traditions. Discussion of context, intertextualities and formal approaches illustrates the increasing self-consciousness and self-reflexivity of the period, whilst a 'Readings' section offers new readings of key selected texts. The volume as a whole offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century.
R.S. Thomas
Author: William Virgil Davis
Publisher: Baylor University Press
ISBN: 193279249X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The theology and the poetry of Welch poet R.S. Thomas.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
ISBN: 193279249X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The theology and the poetry of Welch poet R.S. Thomas.
The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature
Author: Geraint Evans
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107106761
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107106761
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.
The Poetry of the Forties in Britain
Author: A. Trevor Tolley
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780886290283
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780886290283
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Chaotic Angels
Author: Gwyneth Lewis
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Gwyneth Lewis is a bilingual virtuoso, publishing separate collections in English and Welsh. Chaotic Angels brings together the poems from her first three English collections, Parables & Faxes (1995), Zero Gravity (1998) and Keeping Mum (2003).
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Gwyneth Lewis is a bilingual virtuoso, publishing separate collections in English and Welsh. Chaotic Angels brings together the poems from her first three English collections, Parables & Faxes (1995), Zero Gravity (1998) and Keeping Mum (2003).