The term ‘Anglo-Welsh’ was probably coined by Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir) in 1772, and has been applied to a wide and varied body of literature. Raymond Garlick’s study explores the history of Welsh writing in English and the antecedents of ‘the vigorous Anglo-Welsh Literature of the twentieth century’, while at the same time attempting to understand the complex cultural negotiations necessitated by the fact that, as R. S. Thomas puts it, ‘despite our speech we are not English’.