Bard of Liberty

Geraint H. Jenkins

Description

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.
1. 'On the Banks of the Daw' 2. 'I was always pushing forward' 3. 'When he nobly for Liberty stood' 4. 'The Unparalleled Eventfulness of this Age' 5. '[He] is now a seller of seditious Books and will be planting Treason wherever he goes' 6. 'I have as much Cimbric patriotism as any man living' 7. 'I am what I am, and I most fervently thank God that I am what I am'

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Idioma galés
• Irish
• English
• European
• Welsh
• Scottish
• Wales

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 juillet 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780708325001
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Iolo Morganwg and the Romantic Tradition in Wales

Bard of Liberty

The Political Radicalism of Iolo Morganwg

Geraint H. Jenkins

University of Wales Press

IOLO MORGANWG AND THE ROMANTIC TRADITION IN WALES

General Editor: Geraint H. Jenkins

William Owen Pughe,Iolo Morganwg 1798, watercolour. Reproduced by kind permission of the National Library of Wales.

Bard of Liberty:

The Political Radicalism of Iolo Morganwg

GERAINT H. JENKINS

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS CARDIFF 2012

© Geraint H. Jenkins, 2012

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photo- copying, recording or otherwise, without clearance from the University of Wales Press, 10 Columbus Walk, Brigantine Place, Cardiff CF10 4UP.

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978-0-7083-2498-1 (hardback) 978-0-7083-2499-8 (paperback) e-ISBN 978-0-7083-2500-1

The right of Geraint H. Jenkins to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Typeset in Wales by Eira Fenn Gaunt, Cardiff Printed in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire

For Gareth Elwyn Jones the bravest of Welsh historians

IOLO MORGANWG AND THE ROMANTIC TRADITION IN WALES

Other volumes already published in the series:

A Rattleskull Genius:The Many Faces of Iolo MorganwgH., edited by Geraint Jenkins (University of Wales Press, 2005; paperback edn., 2009)

The Truth against the World: Iolo Morganwg and Romantic Forgery, by Mary-Ann Constantine (University of Wales Press, 2007)

Bardic Circles: National, Regional and Personal Identity in the Bardic Vision of Iolo Morganwg2007), by Cathryn A. Charnell-White (University of Wales Press,

The Correspondence of Iolo MorganwgH. Jenkins, Ffion Mair, edited by Geraint Jones and David Ceri Jones (3 volumes, University of Wales Press, 2007)

The Literary and Historical Legacy of Iolo Morganwg 1826–1926, by Marion Löffler (University of Wales Press, 2007)

‘The Bard is a Very Singular Character’: Iolo Morganwg, Marginalia and Print Culture, by Ffion Mair Jones (University of Wales Press, 2010)

Preface List of Abbreviations

1. ‘On the Banks of the Daw’

Contents

2. ‘I was always pushing forward’

3. ‘When he nobly for Liberty stood’

4. ‘The Unparalleled Eventfulness of this Age’

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7.

‘[He] is now a seller of seditious Books and will be planting Treason wherever he goes’

‘I have as much Cimbric patriotism as any man living’

‘I am what I am, and I most fervently thank God that I am what I am’

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