Author: Colin Edwards
Publisher: Seren Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This is the second volume of transcribed interviews about the poet Dylan Thomas. Journalist, broadcaster, and author Colin Edwards interviewed numerous sources close to Thomas for a planned biography of the poet, but he was unable to begin work before his early death. The transcribed tapes have been edited into two collections. This volume contains interviews with Fred Janes, Mably Owen, Vernon Watkins, Glyn Jones, and the villagers of Dylan's stomping grounds of New Quay, South Leigh, and Laughern, as well as with many others, including Dylan's friends, colleagues, and acquaintances.
Dylan Remembered
Author: Colin Edwards
Publisher: Seren Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This is the second volume of transcribed interviews about the poet Dylan Thomas. Journalist, broadcaster, and author Colin Edwards interviewed numerous sources close to Thomas for a planned biography of the poet, but he was unable to begin work before his early death. The transcribed tapes have been edited into two collections. This volume contains interviews with Fred Janes, Mably Owen, Vernon Watkins, Glyn Jones, and the villagers of Dylan's stomping grounds of New Quay, South Leigh, and Laughern, as well as with many others, including Dylan's friends, colleagues, and acquaintances.
Publisher: Seren Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This is the second volume of transcribed interviews about the poet Dylan Thomas. Journalist, broadcaster, and author Colin Edwards interviewed numerous sources close to Thomas for a planned biography of the poet, but he was unable to begin work before his early death. The transcribed tapes have been edited into two collections. This volume contains interviews with Fred Janes, Mably Owen, Vernon Watkins, Glyn Jones, and the villagers of Dylan's stomping grounds of New Quay, South Leigh, and Laughern, as well as with many others, including Dylan's friends, colleagues, and acquaintances.
New Quay Wales Remembered
Author: Catrin Edwards-Jones
Publisher: Anchor Books
ISBN: 9781846248467
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
In this book of evocative descriptions and anecdotes of a bygone era, Catrin Edwards-Jones writes about growing up in New Quay, Cardiganshire in the 1930s and 1940s. In those days it was a charming, quiet town peopled by retired master mariners, intriguing to a young girl with their telescopes and tall tales. Her childhood joys included the unforgettable hymn-singing of the holidaying Rhondda Valley miners, the temptations of the sweet shop, and adventures on the clifftops.
Publisher: Anchor Books
ISBN: 9781846248467
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
In this book of evocative descriptions and anecdotes of a bygone era, Catrin Edwards-Jones writes about growing up in New Quay, Cardiganshire in the 1930s and 1940s. In those days it was a charming, quiet town peopled by retired master mariners, intriguing to a young girl with their telescopes and tall tales. Her childhood joys included the unforgettable hymn-singing of the holidaying Rhondda Valley miners, the temptations of the sweet shop, and adventures on the clifftops.
Dylan Thomas
Author: Hannah Ellis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472903110
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a unique collection of specially commissioned essays celebrating the poet's life and work one hundred years after his birth in 1914. Edited by his granddaughter, Hannah Ellis, who introduces each section by theme, the book is divided into three parts concerning Thomas's early years, later life and his lasting legacy. Highlights include essays from noted biographers Andrew Lycett and David N. Thomas, National Poet for Wales Gillian Clarke on Under Milk Wood, and poetry by Archbishop Emeritus Rowan Williams. The book also includes essays by poet Owen Sheers and BBC Radio 6 presenter Cerys Matthews, as well as numerous testimonies and poems from the likes of former President of the United States Jimmy Carter, Phillip Pullman and actor Michael Sheen. With a foreword by comedian and former Monty Python Terry Jones, Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a rich and personal reflection on the lasting legacy of Britain's greatest poet.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472903110
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a unique collection of specially commissioned essays celebrating the poet's life and work one hundred years after his birth in 1914. Edited by his granddaughter, Hannah Ellis, who introduces each section by theme, the book is divided into three parts concerning Thomas's early years, later life and his lasting legacy. Highlights include essays from noted biographers Andrew Lycett and David N. Thomas, National Poet for Wales Gillian Clarke on Under Milk Wood, and poetry by Archbishop Emeritus Rowan Williams. The book also includes essays by poet Owen Sheers and BBC Radio 6 presenter Cerys Matthews, as well as numerous testimonies and poems from the likes of former President of the United States Jimmy Carter, Phillip Pullman and actor Michael Sheen. With a foreword by comedian and former Monty Python Terry Jones, Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a rich and personal reflection on the lasting legacy of Britain's greatest poet.
West Wales Historical Records
Author: Francis Green
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wales, West
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
List of members.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wales, West
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
List of members.
Dylan Thomas
Author: Walford Davies
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783160594
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This critical study covers the whole range of Dylan Thomas's writing, both poetry and prose, in an accessible appraisal of the work and achievement of a major and dynamic poet. It interrelates the man and his national-cultural background by defining in detail the Welshness of his poetic temperament and critical attitudes, as both man and poet. At the same time, it illustrates Thomas's wide knowledge of and impact on the long and varied tradition of poetry in English. In that connection, it delineates and delimits Thomas's relationship to surrealism, compares and contrasts his work with that of other poets of the 1930s and 1940s, and shows how its power survives his early death in 1953, in the decade of the 'Movement' poets and beyond. A major aspect of this book is the close textual analysis of the works quoted; it explores anew the recognition due to the man who wrote the work, and helps us to separate the intrinsic achievement of the work from the foisted perceptions of the 'legend'.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783160594
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This critical study covers the whole range of Dylan Thomas's writing, both poetry and prose, in an accessible appraisal of the work and achievement of a major and dynamic poet. It interrelates the man and his national-cultural background by defining in detail the Welshness of his poetic temperament and critical attitudes, as both man and poet. At the same time, it illustrates Thomas's wide knowledge of and impact on the long and varied tradition of poetry in English. In that connection, it delineates and delimits Thomas's relationship to surrealism, compares and contrasts his work with that of other poets of the 1930s and 1940s, and shows how its power survives his early death in 1953, in the decade of the 'Movement' poets and beyond. A major aspect of this book is the close textual analysis of the works quoted; it explores anew the recognition due to the man who wrote the work, and helps us to separate the intrinsic achievement of the work from the foisted perceptions of the 'legend'.
Local History from a Printer's File
Tracing Your Welsh Ancestors
Author: Beryl Evans
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473861950
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Few previous publications have focused on Welsh family history, and none have provided a comprehensive guide to the genealogical information available and where to find it. That is why the publication of Beryl Evans's new Welsh family history handbook is such a significant event in the field. Her detailed, accessible, authoritative guide will be essential reading and reference for anyone who is eager to research ancestors from Wales. She describes the key archival sources and shows how the development of new technology, the internet in particular, has made them so much easier to explore. Drawing on her long experience of family history work, she gives clear practical advice on how to start a research project, and she sketches in the outlines of Welsh history, Welsh surnames and place-names and the Welsh language. But the main body of her book is devoted to identifying the variety of sources researchers can consult the archive repositories, including The National Library of Wales, civil records of all kinds, the census, parish registers, wills, the records of churches, chapels, schools, businesses, tax offices and courts, and the wide range of printed records. Beryl Evans's handbook will be a basic text for researchers of Welsh descent and for anyone who is keen to learn about Welsh history
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473861950
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Few previous publications have focused on Welsh family history, and none have provided a comprehensive guide to the genealogical information available and where to find it. That is why the publication of Beryl Evans's new Welsh family history handbook is such a significant event in the field. Her detailed, accessible, authoritative guide will be essential reading and reference for anyone who is eager to research ancestors from Wales. She describes the key archival sources and shows how the development of new technology, the internet in particular, has made them so much easier to explore. Drawing on her long experience of family history work, she gives clear practical advice on how to start a research project, and she sketches in the outlines of Welsh history, Welsh surnames and place-names and the Welsh language. But the main body of her book is devoted to identifying the variety of sources researchers can consult the archive repositories, including The National Library of Wales, civil records of all kinds, the census, parish registers, wills, the records of churches, chapels, schools, businesses, tax offices and courts, and the wide range of printed records. Beryl Evans's handbook will be a basic text for researchers of Welsh descent and for anyone who is keen to learn about Welsh history
Gleanings from a Printer's File
Author: John Ballinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cardiganshire (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Extracts from the records of the publisher of the 'Tivyside Advertiser', Cardigan, from 1825 to 1865, illustrating the value from the point of view of local history of the products of local printing offices.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cardiganshire (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Extracts from the records of the publisher of the 'Tivyside Advertiser', Cardigan, from 1825 to 1865, illustrating the value from the point of view of local history of the products of local printing offices.
Britannia's Dragon
Author: J.D. Davies
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752494104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Based on extensive research, The Naval History of Wales tells a compelling story that spans nearly 2,000 years, from the Romans to the present. Many Welsh men and women have served in the Royal Navy and the navies of other countries. Welshmen played major parts in voyages of exploration, in the navy's suppression of the slave trade, and in naval warfare from the Viking era to the Spanish Armada, in the American Civil War, both world wars and the Falklands War. Comprehensive, enlightening, and provocative, The Naval History of Wales also explodes many myths about Welsh history, naval historian J.D. Davies arguing that most Welshmen in the sailing navy were volunteers and that, relative to the size of national populations, proportionately more Welsh seamen than English fought at Trafalgar. Written in vivid detail, this volume is one that no maritime or Welsh historian can do without.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752494104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Based on extensive research, The Naval History of Wales tells a compelling story that spans nearly 2,000 years, from the Romans to the present. Many Welsh men and women have served in the Royal Navy and the navies of other countries. Welshmen played major parts in voyages of exploration, in the navy's suppression of the slave trade, and in naval warfare from the Viking era to the Spanish Armada, in the American Civil War, both world wars and the Falklands War. Comprehensive, enlightening, and provocative, The Naval History of Wales also explodes many myths about Welsh history, naval historian J.D. Davies arguing that most Welshmen in the sailing navy were volunteers and that, relative to the size of national populations, proportionately more Welsh seamen than English fought at Trafalgar. Written in vivid detail, this volume is one that no maritime or Welsh historian can do without.
Basic Poetry
Author: Jean Elizabeth, Poet Laureate Ward
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435732286
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Basic Poems with instructions, and reference pages on how to write your own poetry. Illustrations within this charming book for the beginner or any one who needs to be inspired.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435732286
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Basic Poems with instructions, and reference pages on how to write your own poetry. Illustrations within this charming book for the beginner or any one who needs to be inspired.