A Guide to Welsh Literature, Vol. II: 1282-c. 1550 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0708314392 ISBN 13: 9780708314395

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 1997

Synopsis

This volume of the very successful Guide to Welsh Literature series, examines the period from the end of the thirteenth century to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Apart from the first and last chapters, the book is exclusively concerned with poetry and the practice of the bardic craft. This was the period of the predominance of the cywydd metre, and separate chapters are devoted to seven of its most notable practitioners. The most outstanding of them being Dafydd Gwilym. The importance of understanding the historical background of medieval Welsh literature is again stressed in this volume, and the final chapter emphasizes the links between Welsh prose-writers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and the broad intellectual movements of the age.

About this title

About the Author

A.O.H. Jarman was a Welsh scholar and Professor of Welsh at University College, Cardiff until his retirement in 1979. Dr Gwilym Rees Hughes edited the Guide to Welsh Literature 1282-c.1550 v. 2. Professor Dafydd Johnston is Director of the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0708314392
• ISBN 13: 9780708314395
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Jarman A. O. H., Hughes Gwilym Rees, Johnston Dafydd