Book Description
A pamphlet focusing on the political radicalism of the celebrated Welsh poet and historian, Lolo Morganwg (1747-1826) alias 'The Bard of Liberty'.
Author : Geraint H. Jenkins
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 13,45 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Bards and bardism
ISBN : 9780947531928
A pamphlet focusing on the political radicalism of the celebrated Welsh poet and historian, Lolo Morganwg (1747-1826) alias 'The Bard of Liberty'.
Author : Geraint H. Jenkins
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1783165278
This is the first full-scale study of the political radicalism of Iolo Morganwg, the renowned Welsh romantic whose colourful life as a Glamorgan stonemason, poet, writer, political activist and humanitarian made him one of the founders of modern Wales. This path-breaking volume offers a vivid portrait of a natural contrarian who tilted against the forces of the establishment for the whole of his adult life. Known as the ‘Bard of Liberty’ or the ’little republican bard’, he moved in highly-politicized circles, embraced republicanism, founded the Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain, threw in his lot with Unitarians, promoted a sense of cultural nationalism, and supported the anti-slave trade campaign and the anti-war movement during years of war, oppression and cruelty.
Author : Ffion Mair Jones
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 24,14 MB
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1783164077
A cunning and successful literary forger, Iolo Morganwg has been a controversial figure within Welsh literary tradition and history ever since his death in 1826. During his lifetime, however, he was largely a figure on the margins of Welsh literary society, who found the task of getting his work into the coveted sphere of print culture a gargantuan one. This book examines how he dealt with the frustrations of his marginality – writing sardonic remarks in the margins of books published by his contemporaries, and submerging himself in a mound of scrap paper on which he wrote numerous drafts of poems and conducted original work on the Welsh language.
Author : Elizabeth Edwards
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 37,68 MB
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0708325696
This new selection of Anglophone Welsh poetry presents a range of literary responses to the French Revolution and the ensuing wars with France, a period in which Wales and its history became prime imaginative territory for poets of all political sympathies.
Author : John Kirk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317320700
This is the first title in a new series called Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution. This series will appeal to those involved in English literary studies, as well as those working in fields of study that cover Enlightenment, Romanticism and Revolution in the last quarter of the eighteenth century.
Author : Bethan Jenkins
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1786830310
Between Wales and England is an exploration of eighteenth-century anglophone Welsh writing by authors for whom English-language literature was mostly a secondary concern. In its process, the work interrogates these authors’ views on the newly-emerging sense of ‘Britishness’, finding them in many cases to be more nuanced and less resistant than has generally been considered. It looks primarily at the English-language works of Lewis Morris, Evan Evans, and Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) in the context of both their Welsh- and English-language influences and time spent travelling between the two countries, considering how these authors responded to and reimagined the new national identity through their poetry and prose.
Author : Cathryn Charnell-White
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,61 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Bardism was the idiosyncratic vision of the Romantic forger Iolo Morganwg--a radical Druid revival that asserted Welsh identity and downplayed the influence of Christianity. It furnished the Welsh nation with a pantheon of heroes; asserted liberty, equality, freedom of speech, and opposition to war; and repudiated the tired contemporary stereotype of the barbarous Celt. Bardic Circles discusses the national, religious, and personal identities made explicit in Bardism and its relation to Iolo's self-definition, Romantic forgeries, and contemporary Welsh self-image.
Author : Ronald Hutton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Continuum
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,74 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :
A comprehensive insight into Druids in Britain since 1500, with hundreds of sources never used before. The first major overview of the subject for over 30 years.
Author : Marion Löffler
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
"This volume analyses the public reception and criticism of the writings of Iolo Morganwg during the long nineteenth century, considers the development of his ideas about the Eisteddfod and the Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain, and reveals how the myth of 'old Iolo' took root at a time when Romanticism and nationalism gave rise to a historicist view of nationhood. The counterfeit material that Iolo added to historical sources was eagerly received by scholars in search of a core historical narrative and also inspired Romantics much farther afield. From the late Victorian period, however, a powerful critique of Iolo's legacy paved the way for more reputable twentieth-century Welsh scholarship. A selection of little-known key texts included in this volume also provides new insights into the way in which this legendary figure and his work were perceived." --Book Jacket.
Author : Mary-Ann Constantine
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,16 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
During Iolo Morganwg's lifetime, Britain was obsessed with literary forgery. This book reveals the unexpected connections and hidden influences behind Britain's most successful (and therefore, perhaps, least visible) Romantic forger.