Wordsworth and Welsh Romanticism Prothero James
Wordsworth and Welsh Romanticism Prothero James Popular anthologies hold that the Romantic Era in Great Britain ended promptly in 1832 and that the early Twentieth Century was the time of Modernism…
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Wordsworth and Welsh Romanticism Prothero James
Popular anthologies hold that the Romantic Era in Great Britain ended promptly in 1832 and that the early Twentieth Century was the time of Modernism and the rejection of the Romantic in British letters. This study traces the work of poets and novelists in Wales in the early- to mid-Twentieth Century who all found their poetic master to be William Wordsworth. However, in Wales, just the opposite was true.
Davies, John Cowper Powys and Huw Menai - a tramp, a mystic novelist and a coal miner - produce novels and poetry with Wordsworth as their acknowledged master. In the early part of the century, W. H. By mid-century, Idris Davies, a coal miner turned teacher, R. S.
Thomas, an Anglican priest, and Leslie Norris, another teacher, are writing in the mountainous shadow of William Wordsworth. While the literary lights of London are leading the Modernist revolution, in Wales, the inspiration