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The truth against the world : Iolo Morganwg and Romantic forgery

Title: The truth against the world : Iolo Morganwg and Romantic forgery / Mary-Ann Constantine.
Author: Constantine, Mary-Ann.
Publication: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2007.

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Description

xii, 231 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimile; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Iolo Morganwg and the Romantic tradition in Wales

Uniform Title

Iolo Morganwg and the Romantic tradition in Wales

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-223) and index.

Contents

'Iolo Morganwg' / Gwyneth Lewis -- 1. Introduction : 'seeing daylight all the way' : Iolo Morganwg and Romantic forgery -- Pt. I. Chatterton -- 2. Proximities -- 3. Poets and patrons : Dafydd ap Gwilym and Ifor Hael -- 4. 'What I really and truly am' : identity, duplicity, autobiography -- 5. Poems, lyric and pastoral and the self-taught tradition -- Pt. II. Ossian -- 6. 'A multiplicity of copies' : the testimony of the texts -- 7. 'Indelible impressions' : Romans, Britons and the legacy of letters -- 8. 'Singing with a voice as bright as ever' : last bards -- 9. The voice conventional -- Pt. III. La Villemarque -- 10. 'Je suis barde!' -- 11. 'La langue de Taliesin' : Wales and Welsh in the Barzaz-Breiz -- 12. Translating Wales -- 13. Epilogue : 'I have fairly caught the gudgeon'

ISBN

0708320627
9780708320624

OCLC

ocm86167613
86167613
SCSB-8886464

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library