Welsh literature in English

Welsh writing in English (Welsh: Llenyddiaeth Gymreig yn Saesneg), (previously Anglo-Welsh literature) is a term used to describe works written in the English language by Welsh writers.

The term 'Anglo-Welsh' replaced an earlier attempt to define this category of writing as 'Anglo-Cymric'.^[1] The form 'Anglo-Welsh' was used by Idris Bell in 1922^[2] and revived by Raymond Garlick and Roland Mathias when they renamed their literary periodical Dock Leaves as The Anglo-Welsh Review^[3] and later further defined the term in their anthology Anglo-Welsh Poetry 1480-1980 as denoting a literature in which "the first element of the compound being understood to specify the language and the second the provenance of the writing".^[4] Although recognised as a distinctive entity only since the 20th century, Garlick and Mathias sought to identify a tradition of writing in English in Wales going back much further.^[5] The need for a separate identity for this kind of writing arose because the term 'Welsh Literature' describes Welsh-language literature which has its own continuous tradition going back to the sixth century poem known as Y Gododdin.

^ Lewis Davies, 'The Anglo-Cymric School of Poets', Welsh Outlook, 1926
^ Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales. ed. Meic Stephens, 1986
^ Editorial to The Anglo-Welsh Review, 1957
^ Raymond Garlck and Roland Mathias, Introduction to Anglo-Welsh Poetry 1480-1980 (1984), p. 27.
^ Raymond Garlick An Introduction to Anglo-Welsh Literature (University of Wales Press, 1970)

[1] Lewis Davies, 'The Anglo-Cymric School of Poets', Welsh Outlook, 1926

[2] Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales. ed. Meic Stephens, 1986

[3] Editorial to The Anglo-Welsh Review, 1957

[4] Raymond Garlck and Roland Mathias, Introduction to Anglo-Welsh Poetry 1480-1980 (1984), p. 27.

[5] Raymond Garlick An Introduction to Anglo-Welsh Literature (University of Wales Press, 1970)

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