Author : Geraint H. Jenkins
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 32,91 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 : Ffion Mair Jones
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 13,1 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 : Geraint H. Jenkins
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,94 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 : Elizabeth Edwards
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0708326935
In the period following the French revolution in 1789, Welsh poets continually reflected on the extraordinary new era in which they lived through their writing. Effortlessly ranging from Wales’s deep and distant history to accounts of the most topical and urgent current affairs, their poems on war, Welshness, druids, parted lovers and sublime landscapes encompass the beautiful, the brutal and the mysterious. Facing a future that often seemed agonisingly uncertain, poets in Wales used their verses to voice their thoughts and feelings about events that had rocked the whole of Europe, and whose effects continued to be felt long after 1789. This new selection of poetry from Wales sets recently-discovered manuscript texts alongside little-known early printed poems, offering a full and accessible introduction to Welsh poetry in English in the period 1780-1820.
Author : John Kirk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 24,93 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 : 279 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1786830329
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 : 23,39 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 :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Celts
ISBN :
Serves as a study of what people have thought about the ancient Druids and why. This work looks at the many ways in which Druids have been imagined in Britain since 1500, and what this tells us about modern and early modern society. It also offers insights into the development of British national identities, literary culture and protest movements.
Author : Marion Löffler
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 21,25 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 : 40,62 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.
