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Imagining Wales

A View of Modern Welsh Writing in English

Author(s) Jeremy Hooker

Paperback - £19.99

Language: English

Genre(s): Welsh Interest

June 2001 · 192 pages ·216x138mm

· Paperback - 9780708316368

About The Book

This volume deals with the 20th-century literature that is either Anglo-Welsh or that which relates to Wales. The argument of how writers "ground" themselves in their imagined Wales as a means of anchoring themselves against groundlessness in modern civilization, is also examined.

Endorsements

"This book is a fine one. Its concerns are important and are given unusually full treatment by an independently-minded writer. Hooker offers countless passing insights, and writes gently and lucidly. He brings a generous respect to his writers while not failing to raise awkward questions." -New Welsh Review 'This book will intrigue and enlighten readers, and is an important addition to the examination of Welsh writing in English.' PQR 'He writes valuably and interestingly about novelists and poets as diverse as Emyr Humphreys, Gillian Clarke and John Cowper Powys...Imagining Wales offers a grounding in literary critical debate about Welsh writing.' Times Literary Supplement

About the Author(s)

Author(s): Jeremy Hooker

Jeremy Hooker is a poet, critic, teacher and broadcaster, and a Professor of English literature at the University of Glamorgan. He has published a number of works on literary criticism as well as volumes of poetry.