The literature of Wales is one of the oldest continuous literary
traditions in Europe. The earliest surviving poetry was forged in
the battlefields of post-Roman Wales and the 'Old North' of
Britain, and the Welsh-language poets of today still write within
the same poetic tradition. In the early twentieth century, Welsh
writers in English outnumbered writers in Welsh for the first time,
generating new modes of writing and a crisis of national identity
which began to resolve itself at the end of the twentieth century
with the political devolution of Wales within the United Kingdom.
By considering the two literatures side by side, this book argues
that bilingualism is now a normative condition in Wales. Written by
leading scholars, this book provides a comprehensive chronological
guide to fifteen centuries of Welsh literature and Welsh writing in
English against a backdrop of key historical and political events
in Britain.
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