This work examines the career and work of the 20th-century Welsh author Islwyn Ffowc Elis. His works were said to have laid the foundations for the contemporary Welsh novel.
This lively and informative account of the life, work, and death of the Welsh-born poet Ben Bowen (1878-1903), published on the centenary of his death, seeks to explain Bowen's short-lived fame and subsequent obscurity. It considers his precocious sense of himself as a poet, the literary, social, and religious milieu in which he operated, his desire to use poetry as an escape from humble beginnings, and his awareness from his late teens of his...
