Wordsworth and Welsh Romanticism

Reviews / Votes

"Over the past two decades scholars of William Wordsworth and Romantic Era writing have seen a shift in the study to include the effects of Romantic era thought on later nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers. James Prothero's Wordsworth and Welsh Romanticism (2013) contributes to this focus by paying particular attention to the ways that Romanticism appears unexpectedly in early twentieth-century Welsh poetry. In doing so, Prothero makes important connections between Wordsworth and Wales-both in terms of how Wales influenced Wordsworth, and how Wordsworth influenced Welsh writers in the twentieth-century. [...] Although there has been increasing interest in Wordsworth's relationship with Wales and notions of national identity in his writing, Prothero's book is significant to the study because it examines not only how Wales influenced Wordsworth, but also how Wordsworth continued to influence twentieth-century Welsh writers. [...] Although Prothero responsibly asserts that his book does not argue for Welsh Romanticism as a movement, he lays the groundwork for critical assessment of such an argument in his assessment of six writers who were keenly aware of Wordsworth's presence and voice in their writing"-Kelly Hunnings, University of New Mexico; Rocky Mountain Review, 69.1, 2015