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Anthony Conran

Born

in Kharagpur, Bengal, India

April 07, 1931

Died

January 14, 2013

Genre

Poetry

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Anthony Conran (1931-2013) was born in India and educated at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, where he remained as Research Fellow and Tutor in the Department of English from 1957 to 1982.

He was a man who discovered, embraced, and educated others into the full range of poetic ‘tellings’ in both English and Welsh. He spent a lifetime elasticising and making ever more permeable the borders of translation. Through such landmark works as the Penguin Book of Welsh Verse (1967) and his English opening-up of Waldo Williams in The Peacemakers (1997), he drew Welsh and English traditions into meaningful dialogue.

He was a distinguished poet and acute literary critic. From the heroic modes of the cynfeirdd to those of the Princes’ poets ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 30 ratings · 3 reviews · 34 distinct works

	Penguin Book of Welsh Verse 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frontiers in Anglo-Welsh Poetry it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Brings You Here So Late? 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The cost of strangeness: Essays on the English poets of Wales it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1982 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems, 1951-67 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spirit level and other poems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Gwynedd symphony 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penguin book of Welsh Verse 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Claim, Claim, Claim 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Penguin book of Welsh verse; 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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