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Ben Bowen (Paperback)
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Ben Bowen (Paperback)
Series: Writers of Wales
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Loot Price R146
Discovery Miles 1 460
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When Ben Bowen died, aged twenty-five, in 1903, the Welsh literary
establishment predicted his immortality. This book looks at the
Bowen phenomenon as a product both of his own view of himself as a
great poet and a Wales that fed that assumption. It traces his
escape from a miner's life in the Rhondda, his stay in South Africa
during the Boer War, his talent for controversy and his growing
awareness of his early death. This is the first extended,
dispassionate account of the life, work and death of the
Treorci-born poet Ben Bowen (1878-1903). Published on the centenary
of his death, the work seeks to explain Bowen's short-lived fame
and subsequent obscurity. It considers his precocious sense of
himself as a poet, the literary, social and religious milieu in
which he operated, his desire to use poetry as an escape from
humble beginnings, and his awareness from his late teens of his
impending death. Through a consideration of the life of this
compelling character, Robin Chapman also enhances our understanding
of Welsh culture in late-Victorian and early-Edwardian Wales.
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