Anglo-Welsh War (1231-1234)
Welsh writing in English, (previously Anglo-Welsh literature) is a term used to describe works written in the English language by Welsh 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 Idris Bell in 1922 and revived by Raymond Garlick and Roland Mathias when they renamed their literary periodical ''Dock Leaves'' as '' The Anglo-Welsh Review'' 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 Welsh-languag ...
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