Roland Mathias, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Roland Mathias

Welsh poet and writer

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1915

Place of Birth: Tal-y-bont on Usk, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 16-Aug-2007

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: Wales, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Roland Mathias

  • Roland Glyn Mathias (4 September 1915 – 16 August 2007) was a Welsh writer, known for his poetry and short stories.
  • He was also a literary critic, and responsible with Raymond Garlick for the success of the literary magazine Dock Leaves (from 1949), later from 1957 The Anglo-Welsh Review.
  • He edited it from 1961 to 1976.
  • His other writing includes books on David Jones, Vernon Watkins and John Cowper Powys, and Anglo-Welsh Poetry 1480-1980 with Raymond Garlick. Mathias was born at Talybont-on-Usk, south-east of Brecon in Powys, in 1915 and brought up mostly in England and Germany.
  • He graduated in history from Jesus College, Oxford.
  • Days Enduring (1942) was his first poetry collection.
  • He was a pacifist, and was twice gaoled in World War II as a conscientious objector.
  • His career was in teaching, in Wales and elsewhere in the UK, notably serving as Headmaster of King Edward VI Five Ways School, Bartley Green, Birmingham from 1964 to 1969.
  • He retired to Brecon in 1969 and died in 2007; buried at Aber Chapel on the outskirts of Talybont on Usk. His son, Jonathan Glyn Mathias, known as Glyn Mathias, is a well known political correspondent. The Roland Mathias Prize, a literary award, is administered by the Brecknock Society and Museum Friends and is named in his honour.There are collections of manuscripts and correspondence of Roland Mathias and of The Anglo-Welsh Review in the National Library of Wales.

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