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Klappentext An industrious academic and charmingly eccentric Romantic poet and forger! Iolo Morganwg (1747-1846) left behind a floor-to-ceiling stack of unpublished manuscripts in his small Welsh cottage. "A Rattleskull Genius!" based on that trove of unpublished material now held at the National Library of Wales! provides both a celebration and a critical reassessment of the author and his contributions to Welsh cultural tradition. Zusammenfassung Better known by the bardic name of Iolo Morganwg! Edward Williams was one of history's great fantasists. The legacy he left behind was a cottage filled to the ceiling with manuscripts. This volume provides a re-evaluation of the diverse interests of Iolo Morganwg and the extent to which his ideas and writings shaped the Welsh cultural tradition. Geraint H. Jenkins, On the Trail of a Rattleskull Genius; I. BACKGROUND:R. J. W. Evans, The Manuscripts: The Culture and Politics of Forgery; Branwen Jarvis, The Welsh Cultural Background; II. LITERATURE:Ceri W. Lewis, Iolo Morganwg and Strict-metre Welsh Poetry; Huw Meirion Edwards, A Multitude of Voices: The Free-metre Poetry of Iolo Morganwg; Mary-Ann Constantine, 'This Wildernessed Business of Publication': The Making of Poems, Lyric and Pastoral (1794); Damian Walford Davies, 'At Defiance': Iolo, Godwin, Coleridge, Wordsworth; Jon Mee, 'Images of Truth new born': Iolo, William Blake, and the Literary Radicalism of the 1790s; III. SUBJECTS:Richard Suggett, Iolo Morganwg: Marble-mason, Builder, and Antiquary; David Ceri Jones, Iolo Morganwg and the Welsh rural landscape; Prys Morgan, Iolo Morganwg and Welsh historical traditions; Geraint H. Jenkins, The Unitarian Firebrand and the Established Church; Andrew Davies, 'Uncontaminated with Human Gore'? Iolo Morganwg, Slavery and the Jamaican inheritance; Richard Crowe, Iolo Morganwg and the Dialects of Wales; Daniel Huws, Iolo Morganwg and Traditional Music; IV. PEOPLE:Cathryn A. Charnell-White, Women and gender in the private and social relationships of Iolo Morganwg; Martin Fitzpatrick, The 'Cultivated Understanding' and 'Chaotic Genius' of David Samwell; Geraint Phillips, Forgery and Patronage: Iolo Morganwg and Owain Myfyr; Glenda Carr, An Uneasy Partnership: Iolo Morganwg and William Owen Pughe; Moira Dearnley, 'Mad Ned' and the 'Smatter-Dasher': Iolo Morganwg and Edward 'Celtic' Davies; Brynley F. Roberts, 'The Age of Restitution': Taliesin ab Iolo and the Reception of Iolo Morganwg; Huw Walters, Myfyr Morganwg and the Rocking-Stone Gorsedd ...
