'As crammed with as many riches as a dragon’s cave. Objective, superbly researched, it is the best book ever published about my homeland.'
Roger Lewis
Source: Daily Telegraph
'This is a book to welcome warmly - the first comprehensive treatment for a general English-speaking readership of a still vital and diverse literary world.'
Rowan Williams
Source: New Statesman
'… [The] Cambridge History of Welsh Literature offers a reassuring sense of cultural continuity-of a once and future Wales perpetually being reconstructed and reinvented in the literary imagination.'
José Lanters
Source: Journal of British Studies
'An exceptional collection which, while spanning the entire vista of Welsh writing from the pre-medieval to the modern, remains lucid, readable and incisive.'
Alex Diggins
Source: Times Literary Supplement
‘… this is an attractive and well-produced book … it is a well-written and generally well-organised volume … The authors are leaders in their field, and the editors are to be congratulated on having skilfully brought together a complex and multifaceted subject area in a practical and valuable work, which sets a new standard for such treatment.’
Sara Elin Roberts
Source: Forum for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Ireland
‘… medieval literature is well served, the essays, citations, and bibliography offering a reliable and informative guide.’
Jenny Rowland
Source: Cambrian Mediaeval Celtic Studies
