Dafydd Ap Gwilym: Influences and Analogues

Edwards, Huw M.

ISBN 10: 0198159013 / ISBN 13: 9780198159018

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxfod, 1996

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General wear to jacket. Otherwise, clean and solid. ; Oxford Modern Languages And Literature Monographs; 8vo; 300 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dafydd Ap Gwilym: Influences and Analogues
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxfod
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198159013
• ISBN 13: 9780198159018
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Criticism/Literary History/Lit.Theory

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Synopsis

One of the great innovators of medieval literature, Dafydd ap Gwilym's poetic voice is as distinctive and resonant as those of his more celebrated contemporaries Chaucer and Boccaccio. This major study of the largely submerged popular verse tradition of medieval Wales examines Dafydd's use both of the native popular verse tradition and of the persuasive convention of northern French verse to forge a new kind of poetry for a new age. Composing in the wake of the Edwardian conquest of Wales, Dafyydd (c.1330-70) and a few kindred spirits sought to adapt and revitalize an already sophisticated bardic culture by expanding its subject matter to include a surprising variety of entertainment as well as formal praise. Huw M. Edwards sets out a detailed comparison of Dafydd's verse with the highly influential poetry of northern France, in terms of themes, motifs and poetic genres.

About the Author

Huw M. Edwards is Lecturer in Welsh at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.