The Truth Against the World: Iolo Morganwg and Romantic Forgery

ISBN-13: 9780708320624 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 178 str.

Mary-Ann Constantine

Opis

Iolo Morganwg was Britain s most successful (and hence, least visible) Romantic forger as well as a poet, Arthurian, influential antiquarian, and laudanum addict. During his lifetime, Britain was fascinated with literary forgery. Iolo s own strongly-held ideas about the truth historical, literary, and religious speak about more than mere deception and offer a provocative look at the blurred intersection of the Celtic and British Romantic worlds. "The Truth Against the World" examines the complex relationships entangled around Iolo s forgeries and their criticism, as well as how, after death, his ideas affected the Celtic cultural revival."