Ruth Bidgood

Matthew Jarvis

Description

This is the first full-length scholarly study of the prize-winning poet Ruth Bidgood, a writer who is best known for her long-term literary engagement with the landscape and communities of the mid-Wales region she has made her home.
Chapter 1: Finding Mid-Wales Chapter 2: Towards a Poetics of Abergwesyn Chapter 3: Myth and the Sacred Chapter 4: The Necessity of Darkness Chapter 5: Other Histories Chapter 6: Towards a Mid-Wales Epic

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Idioma inglés
• English
• Poetry
• Anglais

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 juin 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780708325230
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

Extrait

Writers of Wales

Ruth Bidgood

Matthew Jarvis

University of Wales Press

Writers of Wales

Ruth Bidgood

Editors: Meic Stephens Jane Aaron M. Wynn Thomas

Honorary Series Editor : R. Brinley Jones

Other titles in the Writers of Wales series: Dorothy Edwards(2011), Claire Flay Kate Roberts(2011), Katie Gramich Geoffrey of Monmouth(2010), Karen Jankulak Herbert Williams(2010), Phil Carradice Rhys Davies(2009), Huw Osborne R. S. Thomas(2006), Tony Brown Ben Bowen(2003), T. Robin Chapman James Kitchener Davies(2002), M. Wynn Thomas

Writers of Wales

Ruth Bidgood

Matthew Jarvis

University of Wales Press Cardiff 2012

© Matthew Jarvis, 2012

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978-0-7083-2522-3 e-ISBN 978-0-7083-2523-0

The right of Matthew Jarvis to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77, 78 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Printed and typeset in Wales by Dinefwr Press, Llandybïe

To Kate, Danny and Ethan And with grateful thanks to William Marx

Preface List of Illustrations Abbreviations

1 2 3 4 5 6

Finding Mid-Wales Towards a Poetics of Abergwesyn Myth and the Sacred The Necessity of Darkness Other Histories A Mid-Wales Epic

Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C

Contents

Publication in magazines during the 1960s Two unpublished early poems Unpublished letter toPoetry Wales

Notes Select Bibliography Index

ix xiii xv

1 22 45 68 95 121

131 133 135

139 159 175