A Guide to Welsh Literature. Volume VII. Welsh Writing in English

Long‐awaited, this seventh and final volume of the critically acclaimed A Guide to Welsh Literature turns out to be the jewel in the crown. Editor M. Wynn Thomas of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales, University of Wales, Swansea, has a magic touch, charming splendid and exciting scholarship from his ten fellow essayists.

In his erudite “Introduction” (pp. 1‐6) M. Wynn Thomas deftly poses the key (and controversial) question:

A wide geographical and cultural perspective is adopted in this study, which has been designed primarily as “a layperson’s guide”. The editor is certainly correct...