{"product_id":"ben-bowen-9780708317884","title":"Ben Bowen","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): T. Robin Chapman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Wales Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Wales Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in the centenary year of Ben Bowen's death, this is the first extended, dispassionate account of the life and work of the Treorci-born poet. When Bowen died aged twenty-four in 1903, the Welsh literary establishment predicted his immortality. Yet, just a generation later, he had become little more than a footnote in the history of nineteenth-century poetry. In this study, Robin Chapman reveals Bowen's short-lived fame and subsequent obscurity as a product both of Bowen's precocious sense of himself as a great poet and of a Wales that fed that assumption. He traces Bowen's escape from a miner's life in the Rhondda, his stay in South Africa during the Boer War, his talent for controversy and his growing awareness of his impending death. Through a consideration of the life and work of this compelling character, Robin Chapman also enhances our understanding of Welsh culture in late-Victorian and early-Edwardian Wales.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Wales Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47969768538263,"sku":"9780708317884","price":519.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780708317884.webp?v=1782923999","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ben-bowen-9780708317884","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}