Lewis later recalled that through these writers, "I came for the first time to understand what patriotism meant and the spirit of the nation meant. And I soon began to think that things like those , which had seized hold of them in Ireland, were the things I should seize hold of in Wales."Jelle Krol (2020), Minority Language Writers in the Wake of World War One: A Case Study of Four European Authors, Palgrave. Page 88.
Lewis later recalled that through these writers "I came for the first time to understand what patriotism meant and the spirit of the nation meant And I soon began to think that things like those  which had seized hold of them in Ireland were the things I should seize hold of in Wales"Jelle Krol (2020) Minority Language Writers in the Wake of World War One A Case Study of Four European Authors Palgrave Page 88