Welsh Literature Quotes

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Cairns Craig
“England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales might have been partners in an imperial project that required the projection of 'English Literature' as one of the defining elements of cultural superiority that justified the continuous extension of Empire throughout the nineteenth century, but they were also engaged in an internal struggle over the origins and the dynamics of that literature, and about the role of their national literatures within the consolidating discipline of English.”
Cairns Craig, The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence