The Truth Against the World: Iolo Morganwg and Romantic Forgery

by Mary-Ann Constantine

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0708320627
• ISBN13: 9780708320624
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.3"