Presences That Disturb

This work looks at the impact of five "archetypal" figures on literature and culture of the 1790s in Britain. The figures covered are: Tewdrig, the hermit-king; Vortigen, the Dark-Age traitor, the Polish General Kosciusko; Iolo Morganwg; and the Jacobin demagogue John Thelwall.

' ... strategic and comprehensive in scope ... a welcome contribution in an importantly different direction.' (English) '... brilliantly succeeds in re-placing the reader in the radical writing community of Woodsworth, Coleridge, Thelwall, David Williams and Iolo Morganwg ...' (Coleridge Bulletin) ' ... strategic and comprehensive in scope... Walford Davies's book is a welcome contribution in an importantly different direction... ' (English )

Damian Walford Davies is lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the editor of William Wordsworth: Selected Poems (1994) and has written widely on Romantic authors and twentieth-century Welsh writing in both English and Welsh. His forthcoming books include an edition of Waldo Williams' prose, William Wordsworth: The Prelude: A critical Edition and an edition of The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

A thorough analysis of the identity of Romantic literature in the context of personal, political and cultural responses at the turn of the 19th century, comprising a specific study of the contribution of Wales, in particular the Wye valley, to the development of this literature. 9 black-and-white illustrations.

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