Perish Kings And Emperors But Let The Bard Of Liberty Live
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Author | : Geraint H. Jenkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Bards and bardism |
ISBN | : 9780947531928 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0708322964 |
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This volume approaches the fascinating figure of Iolo Morganwg – stonemason, poet and literary forger – from three distinct but interrelated angles. They all take as their starting point Iolo Morganwg’s ‘marginality’ within mainstream literary society both in London and in Wales and demonstrate the strategies that he used to overcome the frustrations of his situation. Iolo’s notoriety as a literary forger provides the context for the first discussion in the volume, which considers his efforts to pass on his own work as that of famous Welsh writers of the past. This chapter looks at how important the editorial apparatus with which Iolo surrounded his forgeries was to his attempt to ensure their satisfactory reception. Secondly, two collections of printed books owned by Iolo and containing marginal commentary in his hand are explored. The discussion here demonstrates Iolo’s keen interest in the forging of a path for the Welsh language within the developing public domain of the regional eisteddfodau and also his complex personal relations with some of the more successful authors of his day. Iolo’s vulnerability and marginality within the context of a Welsh public sphere are both brought to the fore in this chapter. Finally, the volume turns to the marginalia left by Iolo on letters within his collection of correspondence, showing his extraordinary creativity and bringing to attention for the first time some of his unpublished work in the fields of Welsh and English poetry and on matters relating to the Welsh language.
Author | : Geraint H. Jenkins |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2012-06-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1783165278 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0708325696 |
Download English-language Poetry from Wales 1789-1806 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317320700 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2017-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786830310 |
Download Between Wales and England Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Download Bardic Circles Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Marion Löffler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Download The Literary and Historical Legacy of Iolo Morganwg, 1826-1926 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"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 | : Ronald Hutton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Celts |
ISBN | : |
Download The Druids Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Mary-Ann Constantine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
Download The Truth Against the World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.