Abstract

Introduction: romancing the Celt Gerard Carruthers and Alan Rawes 2. 'And the Celt Knew the Indian': Sir William Jones, the Celtic Revival and the Oriental Renaissance Michael Franklin 3. 'Our Names may be Heard in Song. But what avails it when our strength has ceased?': the critical response to Ossian's Romantic bequest Dafydd R. Moore 4. Blake and Gwendolen: territory, periphery and the proper name David Punter 5. The Welsh American Dream: Iolo Morganwg, Robert Southey and the Madoc Legend Caroline Franklin 6. Wordsworth, north Wales, and the Celtic landscape J. R. Watson 7. 'My Mother's Gordons': the force of 'Celtic memories' in Byron's thought Bernard Beatty 8. 'The Revolt of Erin': Ireland and Islam in Shelley's oriental poetry Arthur Bradley 9. Byron and 'The Ariosto of the North' Andrew Nicholson 10. Scott and the British tourist Murray G. H. Pittock 11. Felicia Hemans, Byronic cosmopolitanism, and the ancient Welsh bards William D. Brewer 12. Writing which nation? Luttrell of Arran and the Romantic invention of Ireland Malcolm Kelsall 13. 'Shining in Modest Glory': Contemporary Northern Irish poets and Romantic poetry Michael O'Neill.

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