{"product_id":"9780708317884","title":"Ben Bowen","description":"\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":"Default Title","offer_id":47055627747568,"sku":"9780708317884","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780708317884_p0.jpg?v=1763619557","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780708317884","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}