Cathryn A. Charnell-White's Welsh Poetry of the French Revolution, 1789-1805 PDF

By Cathryn A. Charnell-White

ISBN-10: 0708325289

ISBN-13: 9780708325285

This anthology provides a range of poems written via Welsh writers dwelling in Wales and London in line with the French Revolution. Edited and translated from Welsh into English for the 1st time, those poems artfully seize this era of extraordinary switch and upheaval, tough what it intended to be Welsh, British, and patriotic amid transferring perspectives on non secular association. Accompanying the English poems are the Welsh originals in addition to explanatory notes and an introductory essay that supply context.


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132 Evans’s own poetic anticlerical satire (no. 44) may have been composed about the same time. 136 Davis subverted the premise of fast-days in original poems too: no. indd 26 10/2/2012 10:51:33 AM 27 INTRODUCTION and uncivilized force. 137 The remainder of the hymn turns to focus on peace, yet its discourse is radically charged with echoes of biblical descriptions of the heavenly kingdom where all will worship the one and only ‘wise King’ (lines 45–8) and no more be punished merely for obeying the Gospel (lines 49–52).

48 In September of 1789 the society formally patronized the revitalized eisteddfod movement for the first time, but its Revolutionary fervour was not publicly articulated until the event held at St Asaph in the following year, when ‘Rhyddid’ (Liberty) was set as the subject for both the essay competition and for the main poetic competition, an awdl. ‘Gwirionedd’ (Truth) was set as the subject for the Llanrwst eisteddfod of 1791. The medals for prize winners at St Asaph were designed by Augustin Dupré, first medallists and engraver general of the First French Republic.

Indd 22 10/2/2012 10:51:33 AM 23 INTRODUCTION Pitt, in turn, is criticized in two sardonic englynion to the ‘Right Dishonourable William Pitt’ (no. 43) by the Unitarian Thomas Evans. Unlike the con­ servative, church-going panegyrists who had praised Pitt at the Corwen eisteddfod (May 1789),112 Thomas Evans’s englynion to Pitt belong to the private sphere and were certainly not intended for public consumption. 113 Morgan John Rhys not only lived in fear, but was feared by others: members of the Methodist community at Trefeca, where Rhys printed his elegy to Dafydd Jones (no.

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