{"title":"Jeremy Hooker","description":"Professor Jeremy Hooker was born in Hampshire in 1941. He was a lecturer at University College, Aberystwyth, for nineteen years, and is the author of several volumes of poetry, included a selected, \u003cem\u003eA View from the Source\u003c\/em\u003e. He has recently begun teaching at the University of Glamorgan.","products":[{"product_id":"wales-at-war-critical-essays-on-literature-and-art","title":"Wales at War: Critical Essays on Literature and Art","description":"\"This is a well researched and thought provoking book.\"\u003cbr\u003eBrian Lee, \u003ci\u003eThe Gem\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreat literature and art have been an unintended consequence of war. The writings and images of those caught up in conflict or reflecting on its experience are embedded in our national consciousness. Wales has played its part in British battles over the past century, and in \u003ci\u003eWales at War\u003c\/i\u003e its finest critics consider how, amidst the turmoil and trauma, creativity has flourished.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the trenches of the First World War came Wilfred Owen, Hedd Wyn, Edward Thomas, Robert Graves and David Jones. The ideological battles of the 1930s tested consciences and saw writers develop an overtly political message, particularly in support of the anti-fascist struggle in Spain. Dylan Thomas wrote propaganda and some of his finest poetry in response to war, while his contemporary Alun Lewis is celebrated as one of Britain's finest writers, despite his early death in Burma. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAway from the fighting, novelists like Lily Tobias, Siân James and Stevie Davies have written of life on the home front and the impact of war on the lives of those left behind. 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