Author: Geraint H. Jenkins
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708325009
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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This is the first full-scale study of the political radicalism of Iolo Morganwg, the renowned Welsh romantic whose colourful life as a Glamorgan stonemason, poet, writer, political activist and humanitarian made him one of the founders of modern Wales. This path-breaking volume offers a vivid portrait of a natural contrarian who tilted against the forces of the establishment for the whole of his adult life. Known as the ‘Bard of Liberty’ or the ’little republican bard’, he moved in highly-politicized circles, embraced republicanism, founded the Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain, threw in his lot with Unitarians, promoted a sense of cultural nationalism, and supported the anti-slave trade campaign and the anti-war movement during years of war, oppression and cruelty.
Author: Geraint H. Jenkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780708324981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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This is the first full-scale study of the political radicalism of Iolo Morganwg, the renowned Welsh romantic whose colourful life as a Glamorgan stonemason, poet, writer, political activist and humanitarian made him one of the founders of modern Wales . This path-breaking volume offers a vivid portrait of a natural contrarian who tilted against the forces of the establishment for the whole of his adult life. Known as the "Bard of Liberty" or the 'little republican bard', he moved in highly-politicized circles, embraced republicanism, founded the Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain, threw in his lot with Unitarians, promoted a sense of cultural nationalism, and supported the anti-slave trade campaign and the anti-war movement during years of war, oppression and cruelty.
Author: Tony Bishop
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1646702980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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Trapped in a curse for a hundred years, the Bard of Souvac has traveled the length and breadth of the world, searching always for a way to be freed from his prison of immortality; but first he must find the truth about those who imprisoned him in life. Now with a glimmer of hope, the Bard returns to the very place where the curse was initiated, knowing that this time, he would find the missing pieces to the mystery of his freedom. Gathering together an unlikely group, the Bard will travel high into the White Mountains of the North for the last piece of information that will grant him liberty, or so he believes...
Author: Joan R. Sherman
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807864463
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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For his humanistic religious verse, his poignant and deeply personal antislavery poems, and, above all, his lifelong enthusiasm for liberty, nature, and the art of poetry, George Moses Horton merits a place of distinction among nineteenth-century African American poets. Enslaved from birth until the close of the Civil War, the self-taught Horton was the first American slave to protest his bondage in published verse and the first black man to publish a book in the South. As a man and as a poet, his achievements were extraordinary. In this volume, Joan Sherman collects sixty-two of Horton's poems. Her comprehensive introduction--combining biography, history, cultural commentary, and critical insight--presents a compelling and detailed picture of this remarkable man's life and art. George Moses Horton (ca. 1797-1883) was born in Northampton County, North Carolina. A slave for sixty-eight years, Horton spent much of his life on a farm near Chapel Hill, and in time he fostered a deep connection with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author of three books of poetry, Horton was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in May of 1996.
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Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 972
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Author: Ford Keeler Brown
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons Limited
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Author: Jonathan Adams
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786839148
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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The story of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay, and revelled in the extravagance of his creative persona. Throughout his long career, Wright strongly resisted the suggestion that his accomplishments owed anything to earthly influences. As much as he wanted his achievements to be recognised, he wanted them to be unaccountable – but they are not. This book reveals for the first time how his unbreakable self-belief and startling creative defiance both originated in the liberal religious and philosophical attitudes woven into his personality during his childhood – deliberately so by his mother and by his many aunts and uncles, to honour the fierce Welsh radicalism of their ancestors.
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Author: Hannah Arendt
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525566597
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 29
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This lecture is a brilliant encapsulation of Arendt’s widely influential arguments on revolution, and why the American Revolution—unlike all those preceding it—was uniquely able to install political freedom. “The Freedom to be Free” was first published in Thinking Without a Banister, a varied collection of Arendt’s essays, lectures, reviews, interviews, speeches, and editorials—which, taken together, manifest the relentless activity of her mind and character and contain within them the articulations of wide and sophisticated range of her political thought. A Vintage Shorts Selection. An ebook short.
