English-language poetry from Wales 1789-1806 [[electronic resource] /] / Elizabeth Edwards

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453114403321
• Autore: Edwards Elizabeth
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-7083-2569-6; 1-299-20157-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Collana: Wales and the French Revolution
• Disciplina: 821.6099429
• Soggetti: English poetry - Welsh authors - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Editorial Principles; David Samwell (Dafydd Ddu Feddyg), 'Ode for the New Year MDCC,XC. As it was intended to have been rehearsed this Day at St. JAMES's'; William Sotheby, 'A Tour Through Parts of South and North Wales'(extract); Anon., 'An Ode to Commerce. Inscribed to John Wilkinson, Esq. the distinguished iron master'; Richard Llwyd, 'An Ode for the New Year [1791], Inscribed to Paul Panton,of Plasgwyn, Esq.'; Richard Llwyd, 'Ode, for the Anniversary of St. David [1792]'; David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), 'The Banks of the Menai. An Ode'David Samwell (Dafydd Ddu Feddyg), 'The Resurrection of Rhitta Gawr'; George Richards, 'The Captivity of Caractacus' (extract); William Sotheby, 'Llangollen. Written at the close of the Autumn 1792' (extract); Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg), 'Winter Incidents, Written in 1777'; Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg), 'Solitude. From the Welsh. Written in 1789'; Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg), 'Ode; Imitated from the Gododin of Aneurin, an ancient British Bard, who wrote about the Year 550'; Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg), 'ADDRESS TO THE INHABITANTS OF WALES. Exhorting them to emigrate, with WILLIAM PENN, to Pennsylvania' (extract)Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg), 'The Horrors of War, a Pastoral'; Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg), 'Ode on Converting a ; Sword into a Pruning Hook'; Jane Cave, 'THOUGHTS On the PRESENT TIMES; Written some Time after the PROCLAMATION for the late General FAST'; Hester Piozzi, Untitled ['Can impious France, though frantic grown']; Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg), 'Church and King rampant or Satanlet loose for a thousand years'; Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg), 'John Bull's Litany'Joseph Hucks, 'On the Ruins of Denbigh Castle, in North Wales'; Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg), 'Song. Bella! horrida Bella! written in Novr 1794'; David Samwell (Dafydd Ddu Feddyg), 'Ode, Written on a long and uncommonly tempestuous cruise with a Squadron of Men of War in about 63 ̊ North Latitude, Decr 24 1794'; Hester Piozzi, 'See, see the mad Marauders come!'; Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg), 'Newgate Stanzas'; Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg), 'TRIAL BY JURY, The Grand Palladium of British Liberty'; Anon., 'For the Chester Chronicle'; Thomas Ryder, 'Introductory Ode for the Cambrian Register''Eliza', 'Sketched on a Party down the River Wye, from Ross to Monmouth'; Anna Seward, 'Llangollen Vale, Inscribed to the Right Honourable Lady Eleanor Butler, and Miss Ponsonby' (extract); Anon., 'The False Alarm'; Cæsar Morgan, 'The Victory of Fishguard. A favorite Song'; Hester Piozzi, 'Written on the Spur of the Moment, to be Sung at the Crown and Anchor'; Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg), 'Song for the Glamorgan Volunteers'; Robert Southey, 'St. David's Day [1797]'; Robert Southey, 'Lines, Written Amid the Ruins of Abergavenny Castle'
• Sommario/riassunto: This new selection of Anglophone Welsh poetry presents a range of literary responses to the French Revolution and the ensuing wars with France, a period in which Wales and its history became prime imaginative territory for poets of all political sympathies.