Bard of Liberty: The Political Radicalism of Iolo Morganwg

Bard of Liberty: The Political Radicalism of Iolo Morganwg
ISBN-10
0708325009
ISBN-13
9780708325001
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
277
Language
English
Published
2012-01-07
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Author
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.

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