Tony Conran

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Tony Conran


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January 14, 2013

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He 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 and the bards of the med
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Average rating: 4.45 · 20 ratings · 4 reviews · 14 distinct works
Welsh Verse: Fourteen Centu...

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Blodeuwedd and Other Poems

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Welsh Verse

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions
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Shape of My Country, The - ...

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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Eros Proposes a Toast: Coll...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998
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Red Sap of Love, The: Colle...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006
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Welsh Verse

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1986
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All hallows: Symphony in th...

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Visions & Praying Mantids

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Castles: Variations on an O...

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