A Rattleskull Genius: The Many Faces of Iolo Morganwg Book

List of Figures ix

List of Contributors xi

Preface xiii

Acknowledgements xv

List of Abbreviations xvii

1 On the Trail of a 'Rattleskull Genius': Introduction Geraint H. Jenkins 1

I Contexts

2 Iolo Morganwg and the Welsh Cultural Background Branwen Jarvis 29

3 'The Manuscripts': The Culture and Politics of Forgery in Central Europe R. J. W. Evans 51

II The Bard

4 Iolo Morganwg and Strict-Metre Welsh Poetry Ceri W. Lewis 71

5 A Multitude of Voices: The Free-Metre Poetry of Iolo Morganwg Huw Meirion Edwards 95

6 'This Wildernessed Business of Publication': The Making of Poems, Lyric and Pastoral (1794) Mary-Ann Constantine 123

7 'At Defiance': Iolo, Godwin, Coleridge, Wordsworth Damian Walford Davies 147

8 'Images of Truth New Born': Iolo, William Blake and the Literary Radicalism of the 1790s Jon Mee 173

III Iolo's Preoccupations

9 Iolo Morganwg: Stonecutter, Builder, and Antiquary Richard Suggett 197

10 Iolo Morganwg and the Welsh Rural Landscape David Ceri Jones 227

11 Iolo Morganwg and Welsh Historical Traditions Prys Morgan 251

12 The Unitarian Firebrand, the Cambrian Society and the Eisteddfod Geraint H. Jenkins 269

13 'Uncontaminated with Human Gore'? Iolo Morganwg, Slavery and the Jamaican Inheritance Andrew Davies 293

14 Iolo Morganwg and the Dialects of Welsh Richard Crowe 315

15 Iolo Morganwg and Traditional Music Daniel Huws 333

IV Iolo's Friends and Enemies

16 Women and Gender in the Private and Social Relationships of Iolo Morganwg Cathryn A. Charnell-White 359

17 The 'Cultivated Understanding' and Chaotic Genius of David Samwell Martin Fitzpatrick 383

18 Forgery and Patronage: Iolo Morganwg andOwain Myfyr Geraint Phillips 403

19 'Mad Ned' and the 'Smatter-Dasher': Iolo Morganwg and Edward 'Celtic' Davies Moira Dearnley 425

20 An Uneasy Partnership: Iolo Morganwg and William Owen Pughe Glenda Carr 443

21 'The Age of Restitution': Taliesin ab Iolo and the Reception of Iolo Morganwg Brynley F. Roberts 461

22 Myfyr Morganwg and the Rocking-Stone Gorsedd Huw Walters 481

Index 501