Welsh Poetry of the French Revolution, 1789-1805

'This book is a unique resource, which places Welsh writing in the Revolutionary era in the context of Welsh nationality, traditional forms and the distinctive shape Crown loyalism took in Wales. Modern, acute and distinctive, it is key reading for any scholar wishing to study this topic'. Murray Pittock, University of Glasgow 'This major new anthology gives an entirely new perspective on the Revolution Controversy of the 1790s. Poetic accounts of the French Revolution are still usually associated with Wordsworth's 'bliss' at the Fall of the Bastille, and nearly always presented to us in English. This collection reveals the impact of events in France on Welsh poetry, and thanks to wonderfully helpful translations, enables English speakers to see the enthusiasm and despair it generated. Perhaps the best known of these poets is Iolo Morganwg, whose English poems have started to make some impact in the anglophone academy, but now his Welsh poems are available too, and provided with a context in the wider array of Welsh voices gathered together here. An eye opening volume!' Professor John Mee, University of Warwick