Presences That Disturb

Damian Walford Davies is lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the editor of William Wordsworth: Selected Poems (1994) and has written widely on Romantic authors and twentieth-century Welsh writing in both English and Welsh. His forthcoming books include an edition of Waldo Williams' prose, William Wordsworth: The Prelude: A critical Edition and an edition of The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Brilliantly succeeds in re-placing the reader in the radical writing community of Woodsworth, Coleridge, Thelwall, David Williams and Iolo Morganwg '