A Guide to Welsh Literature: 1800-1900 v. 5

This book offers an introduction in English to the Welsh-language literature of the 19th century. It covers important individual writers of prose and poetry, the lyric poetic tradition and the eisteddfod poets, travel writing, periodicals and newspapers, fiction, criticism and political commentary.

Hywel Teifi Edwards is to be congratulated for bringing together a collection of essays which illuminate an often maligned and misunderstood period in Welsh literature.',This is a volume that everyone who is seriously interested in our medieval literary heritage should have to hand. It is a mine of accessible information.' Taliesin 'Palaeography and codicology may appear somewhat esoteric disciplines, but used creatively, as Daniel Huws does here, they become the means by which we may deepen our understanding of our culture.' Friend of the Library ' a wealth of scholarship As a milestone in the study of Welsh paleography the volume is both an essential book of reference and a readable and attractive introduction to the field of Welsh Medieval manuscripts for Celticists and medievalists alike. It is likely to remain an authorative and indispensable work in its field for years to come