'I awoke from a deep sleep I had taken under the shade of a tree in a field at the outskirts of a dark wood, without remembering how I had gotten there, or, indeed, where it was exactly, I had gotten.'
So begins a most unusual odyssey, in which a writer who bears a striking similarity to our author, Gary Raymond allows himself to be led through the many-layered realms of Welsh literature, not by Virgil but by the late Professor Raymond Williams.
Taking in the history of Welsh writing in English from the legacy of the bardic tradition to contemporary experimental works, Abandon All Hope introduces Welsh literature in a way it has never been presented before as cutting edge, experimental, vibrant, exciting, intimate, and with a multitude of voices. This voyage into a uniquely Welsh Inferno offers a revolutionary new way to examine and explain literary history, traversing elements of chronology and genre, in a wide-ranging and, above all, highly entertaining manifesto for a new perception of Welsh literature both inside and outside of Wales.
'I awoke from a deep sleep I had taken under the shade of a tree in a field at the outskirts of a dark wood, without remembering how I had gotten there, or, indeed, where it was exactly, I had gotten.'
So begins a most unusual odyssey, in which a writer who bears a striking similarity to our author, Gary Raymond allows himself to be led through the many-layered realms of Welsh literature, not by Virgil but by the late Professor Raymond Williams.
Taking in the history of Welsh writing in English from the legacy of the bardic tradition to contemporary experimental works, Abandon All Hope introduces Welsh literature in a way it has never been presented before as cutting edge, experimental, vibrant, exciting, intimate, and with a multitude of voices. This voyage into a uniquely Welsh Inferno offers a revolutionary new way to examine and explain literary history, traversing elements of chronology and genre, in a wide-ranging and, above all, highly entertaining manifesto for a new perception of Welsh literature both inside and outside of Wales.
Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats into infinity. Has a nasty sting of corpses. What was it Dante wrote?
Abandon Every...
Christ is the inspiration. He is Everything. The Lord is seen when there is nothing blocking Him from view. On the journey home, there are many statues that call for being torn down so not to cast a...
Hope for All: is a collection of inspirational, soul searching, and enlightening verses as well as poems and prayers intended to motivate its reader, fostering gratitude, strength, forgiveness,...
Pahl sees things in a way that some of us who lived through the history fo the Walther League don't -- or can't. He has seen and presented the League as it was and for what it really did accomplish...
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