Emyr Humphreys: Conversations and Reflections (Writing Wales in English) - Softcover

Emyr Humphreys; M.Wynn Thomas; Thomas M. Wyn Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0708317359 ISBN 13: 9780708317358

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2004

Synopsis

This volume offers a section of the most important essays published by Emyr Humphreys over a 30-year period. The essays are prefaced by a series of discusssions which explore some of the intellectual concerns and motifs that have recurred throughout Humphreys' work.

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Review

," . . a fascinating work of one of Wales's most significant creative writers and cultural activists." -Western Mail

"R. S. Thomas memorably described Emyr Humphreys as "the supreme interpreter of Welsh life in English." From such a source, there can be no finer tribute. Both men, masters of English poetry and prose respectively, dedicated their creative lives to an idea of Wales that increasingly struggles to be sustained in what Welsh speakers call "the thin language." For anyone seriously interested in Wales who does not yet have proficiency in Welsh these authors are indispensable . . . We must be grateful, therefore, to editor Wynn Thomas and the University of Wales Press for gathering together for this volume a batch of Emyr Humphreys''s "occasional writings" and for presenting them with such originality, wrapped in a sequence of perceptive interviews between editor and author . . . an indispensable guide . . ." --gwales.com

Synopsis

Conversations and Reflections brings together the previously uncollected 'occasional writings' of Emyr Humphreys, the major novelist of twentieth-century Wales. It maps the historical and cultural background to the work of a writer who was described by R. S. Thomas as 'the supreme interpreter of Welsh life in English'. This selection of the most important essays published by Emyr Humphreys over a fifty-year period reveal the commanding range of his interests and confirm his stature as Wales's leading man of letters. Dealing with themes ranging from sixth-century literature to the twentieth-century media, these essays address the cultural commitments from which Emyr Humphreys' creative writing takes its bearings, as well as being a major author's statements on 'his' Wales, past and present. The essays are interwoven with a parallel series of discussions, conducted with M. Wynn Thomas, which explore many of the key personal, political and cultural concerns that have recurred throughout Emyr Humphreys' work. Conversations and Reflections provides a fascinating overview of the work of one of Wales' most significant creative writers and cultural activists.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0708317359
• ISBN 13: 9780708317358
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256