' ... strategic and comprehensive in scope ... a welcome contribution in an importantly different direction.' (English) '... brilliantly succeeds in re-placing the reader in the radical writing community of Woodsworth, Coleridge, Thelwall, David Williams and Iolo Morganwg ...' (Coleridge Bulletin) ' ... strategic and comprehensive in scope... Walford Davies's book is a welcome contribution in an importantly different direction... ' (English )
This work looks at the impact of five "archetypal" figures on literature and culture of the 1790s in Britain. The figures covered are: Tewdrig, the hermit-king; Vortigen, the Dark-Age traitor, the Polish General Kosciusko; Iolo Morganwg; and the Jacobin demagogue John Thelwall.
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This work looks at the impact of five "archetypal" figures on literature and culture of the 1790s in Britain. The figures covered are: Tewdrig, the hermit-king; Vortigen, the Dark-Age traitor, the Polish General Kosciusko; Iolo Morganwg; and the Jacobin demagogue John Thelwall.
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Damian Walford Davies is lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the editor of William Wordsworth: Selected Poems (1994) and has written widely on Romantic authors and twentieth-century Welsh writing in both English and Welsh. His forthcoming books include an edition of Waldo Williams' prose, William Wordsworth: The Prelude: A critical Edition and an edition of The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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ISBN
9780708317389
Publisert
2002-07-16
Utgiver
University of Wales Press
Vekt
717 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
384
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