Saintly Enigma: Pennar Davies (1911-2011) - Softcover

Ivor Thomas Rees

9781847713704: Saintly Enigma: Pennar Davies (1911-2011)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184771370X ISBN 13: 9781847713704

Publisher: Y Lolfa, 2011

Biography of Pennar Davies (1911-96), the academic, poet, novelist, critic, historian and theologian who played a major role in the literary and religious life of Wales in the second half of the twentieth century. Pennar Davies was a staunch advocate for the Welsh language and the culture of Wales.

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Review:

It is excellent to see a renewed interest in the life and work of that remarkable literary and spiritual figure Pennar Davies... it is both a pleasure and a privilege to cimmend this succinct and lively biogrpahy. --Professor D Densil Morgan (University of Wales Trinity St David)

About the Author:

Ivor Thomas was raised in the Rhondda and was a student ot Memorial College, Brecon during Pennar Davies's tenure as principal. He has served as a Welsh Independent minister at Aberavon and a United Reformed Church minister in England and Wales.

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