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The late eighteenth century was one of the most exciting and
unsettling periods in European history, with the shock-waves of the
French Revolution rippling around the world. As this collection of
essays by leading scholars shows, Wales was no exception. From
political pamphlets to a Denbighshire folk-play, from bardic poetry
to the remodelling of the Welsh landscape itself, responses to the
revolutionary ferment of ideas took many forms. We see how Welsh
poets and preachers negotiated complex London - Wales networks of
patronage and even more complex issues of national and cultural
loyalty; and how the landscape itself is reimagined in fiction,
remodelled a la Rousseau, while it rapidly emptied as impoverished
farming families emigrated to the New World. Drawing on a wealth of
vibrant material in both Welsh and English, much of it unpublished,
this collection marks another important contribution to 'four
nations' criticism, and offers new insights into the tensions and
flashpoints of Romantic-period Wales.
Beirdd yr Uchelwyr' in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are
considered to be the pinnacle of the bardic tradition in Wales in
the Middle Ages. This book gives a comprehensive look at the
period's literature in all its aspects. Attention is given to
masters of the cywydd, such as Dafydd ap Gwilym, Iolo Goch, Guto'r
Glyn, Dafydd Nanmor and Lewys Glyn Cothi. New edition.
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