Product Description: Judas Iscariot—one of the Bible’s most notorious characters—comes to life in this dramatic and thought-provoking new collection of poems by Damian Walford Davies. Fully aware of how ancient enmities shape modern conflicts, the author draws on 20 centuries of representations of Judas to set out a tale that challenges our preconceived notions of holiness and betrayal...read more

Product Description: The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicism’s revisionary engagements have played a central role in the realignment of the field and in the expansion of the Romantic canon...read more

Product Description: R. S. Thomas (1913–2000) was a Welsh poet and an Anglican clergyman whose ironic anti-pastorals, poems of filial resentment, bold charting of the new cosmos, and dialogues with Wallace Stevens and Søren Kierkegaard are among the subjects explored in this collection of critical essays...read more

Product Description: Wales and the Romantic Imagination is the first study devoted exclusively to the appropriation of Wales—its landscape, history, and culture—by writers of the Romantic period. Interest in Celtic influence on these writers is on the rise, and the essays collected here represent a key contribution to ongoing debates over the Romantics’ relations to issues of national identity, antiquarianism, politics, print culture, and gender...read more

Product Description: The authors in this collection join an animated debate on the persistence of Romanticism. Even as dominant twentieth-century cultural movements have contested Romantic "myths" of redemptive Nature, individualism, perfectibility, the transcendence of art, and the heart's affections, the Romantic legacy survives as a point of tension and of inspiration for modern writers...read more

Product Description: An appraisal of the career of R.S. Thomas. It surveys the full range of his poetry and considers his wider cultural significance. The volume offers interpretations of R.S. Thomas's central preoccupations as well as discussions of themes and issues in order to present the rich complexity of his work...read more

Product Description: This work looks at the impact of five archetypal figures on literature and culture of the 1790s in Britain. These five influential figures are associated in important ways with Wales, such as Wordsworth and Coleridge, identified with them in order to define their own ideological and emotional positions in relation to the major debates generated by the French Revolution...read more