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Strata Florida - Ystrad Fflur Barddoniaeth Ystrad Fflur
The abbey was part of a network of Cistercian houses that played a key part in safeguarding manuscripts of old Welsh literature. This book tells the story of that venture with examples of the work of poets and poems about the abbey. It also provides an overview of the continuity of the tradition in the modern world in the works of local and national bards in English and Welsh.
£12.16
University of Wales Press Llên yr Uchelwyr: Hanes Beirniadol Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg 1300-1525
Beirdd yr Uchelwyr' in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are considered to be the pinnacle of the bardic tradition in Wales in the Middle Ages. This book gives a comprehensive look at the period's literature in all its aspects. Attention is given to masters of the cywydd, such as Dafydd ap Gwilym, Iolo Goch, Guto'r Glyn, Dafydd Nanmor and Lewys Glyn Cothi. New edition.
£29.99
University of Wales Press The Literature of Wales
A concise and authoritative survey of the Welsh- and English-language literatures of Wales from the earliest period up to the present day. This illustrated guide, containing extracts from original texts with English translations, is a revised version of Professor Dafydd Johnston’s volume in the University of Wales Press Pocket Guide series, and includes a new chapter on contemporary writing.
£11.36
University of Wales Press Footsteps of 'Liberty and Revolt': Essays on Wales and the French Revolution
The late eighteenth century was one of the most exciting and unsettling periods in European history, with the shock-waves of the French Revolution rippling around the world. As this collection of essays by leading scholars shows, Wales was no exception. From political pamphlets to a Denbighshire folk-play, from bardic poetry to the remodelling of the Welsh landscape itself, responses to the revolutionary ferment of ideas took many forms. We see how Welsh poets and preachers negotiated complex London - Wales networks of patronage and even more complex issues of national and cultural loyalty; and how the landscape itself is reimagined in fiction, remodelled a la Rousseau, while it rapidly emptied as impoverished farming families emigrated to the New World. Drawing on a wealth of vibrant material in both Welsh and English, much of it unpublished, this collection marks another important contribution to 'four nations' criticism, and offers new insights into the tensions and flashpoints of Romantic-period Wales.
£14.99
