The Literature of Wales

by D.R. Johnston

The Literature of Wales provides a concise and informative guide to Welsh literature from the earliest surviving poetry of Taliesin and Aneirin in the sixth century--the oldest attested vernacular literature in Europe.
The book traces the flowering of medieval Welsh literature and the developments of the Renaissance period in Wales up to the Welsh literary revival of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which also saw the rapid...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786830213
• ISBN13: 9781786830210
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.7"