Barer

"All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery towns and the road, railway and river all struggling for space in the narrowing defiles."

"What on earth do they think they are doing, this legion of barers of poets' souls: apart, of course, from making a few bob for, and enhancing the reputations of, their publishers and themselves?"