Welsh literature in English

Welsh writing in English, (previously Anglo-Welsh literature) is a term used to describe works written in the <a href="/facts/English_language/tpkxGt7b">English language</a> by <a href="/facts/Welsh_people/gWY430zy">Welsh</a> writers.
The term 'Anglo-Welsh' replaced an earlier attempt to define this category of writing as 'Anglo-Cymric'. The form 'Anglo-Welsh' was used by <a href="/facts/Idris_Bell/0armazTp">Idris Bell</a> in 1922 and revived by <a href="/facts/Raymond_Garlick/RWjlb16Y">Raymond Garlick</a> and <a href="/facts/Roland_Mathias/Rm7121K9">Roland Mathias</a> when they renamed their literary periodical Dock Leaves as <a href="/facts/The_Anglo-Welsh_Review/cRRDXSTL">The Anglo-Welsh Review</a> and later further defined the term in their anthology Anglo-Welsh Poetry 1480-1980 as denoting a literature in which "the first element of the compound being understood to specify the language and the second the provenance of the writing".
Although recognised as a distinctive entity only since the 20th century, Garlick and Mathias sought to identify a tradition of writing in English in Wales going back much further. The need for a separate identity for this kind of writing arose because the term 'Welsh Literature' describes <a href="/facts/Welsh-language_literature/f7sEojAd">Welsh-language literature</a> which has its own continuous tradition going back to the sixth century poem known as <a href="/facts/Y_Gododdin/thfcorXp">Y Gododdin</a>.

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