Absolute Optimist
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Absolute Optimist

Remembering Eluned Phillips

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Absolute Optimist

Remembering Eluned Phillips

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Eluned Phillips was a passionate woman who ignited equally passionate responses in others. The second woman ever to wear the National Eisteddfod crown – Wales' most prestigious Welsh language literary prize – she is the only woman to have won it twice. Unfortunately, her writing life was blemished by rumours over her work's authorship.Unusual among Welsh women of her generation, Eluned embraced an unconventional lifestyle which took her to pre-war London and Paris, where she met artists Augustus John, Edith Piaf, and Pablo Picasso, as well as the writer Dewi Emrys, the dissolute ex-preacher and poet whose biography she published in 1971. In France she also fell in with a group of idealistic Bretons who introduced her to romantic love and nationalist politics.This is an affectionate and yet critical biography of an unsung heroine of Welsh literature during a time of great change – taking her from rural Carmarthenshire to bohemian Paris and urban Los Angeles. She was often frowned upon, but never less than true to herself.Award-winning poet Menna Elfyn examines Phillips' life and work and argues convincingly that Eluned's poetry is undoubtedly hers and more than worthy of two Crowns. Absolute Optimist was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year on publication in Welsh. It has been translated for Honno by Elinor Wyn Reynolds.

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Publisher
Honno Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781909983816
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Biographies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Prologue
  6. Early Years
  7. London and Dewi Emrys
  8. Paris in the Thirties
  9. The Bretons
  10. The Scriptwriter
  11. Her Poetic Pilgrimage
  12. The Lonely Pilgrimage
  13. The Librettist
  14. Friends United
  15. Journey’s End, but the Storm Lives On
  16. The Two Poems that Won the Crown
  17. Glossary
  18. Eluned Phillips’ Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. Photo page 1
  21. Photo page 2
  22. Photo page 3
  23. Photo page 4
  24. Photo page 5
  25. Photo page 6
  26. Photo page 7
  27. Photo page 8
  28. About Menna Elfyn
  29. About Honno
  30. Copyright