Poetry and British Nationalisms in the Bardic Eighteenth Century

1. Introductio: Beowulf or Brutus of Troy?.- 2. Allan Ramsay and Thomas Ruddiman: Two Ways of Reviving Scotland's Dead Poets.- 3. The Fall and Rise of the Welsh Bards, or, How the English Became British.- 4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Other Bardic Poets: Thomas Chatterton, Edward Jones, Iolo Morganwg, and Odin.- 5. Christabel and the Metre of 'our oldest Writers in the most barbarous ages'.- 6 Epilogue: A Millennium of British Poetry?

Jeff Strabone is Associate Professor of English at Connecticut College, USA, where he teaches the eighteenth century, British Romanticism, and African fiction. He received his PhD from New York University, USA.

"The book offers a compelling picture of a British romanticism defined by its 'bardic narratives of literary history, new print editions of medieval poetry, and a new, Northern-oriented cultural nationalism in the British nations' ... ." (Sean Barry, The Coleridge Bulletin, Issue 55, 2020)

"The strengths of Poetry and British Nationalisms in the Bardic Eighteenth Century outweigh any absences. Its syntheses of recent work on nationalism, medieval reception, and eighteenth-century and Romantic editing and poetics have the potential to benefit scholars and students in a range of fields. ... it also highlights the need for continued examination of the interdisciplinary strategies of literary scholarship on the eighteenth century and Romantic era, it is an added benefit to a thoroughly valuable book." (Dustin M. Frazier Wood, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 119 (3), July, 2020)
"Strabone is at his best when he is recounting the elaboratetracing of textual affiliations among well-known and unknown poets alike that describe this historical shift. ... For this reason, and for his comprehensive account of British bardism's winding textual manifestations, Poetry and British Nationalisms in the Bardic Eighteenth Century will be read for many years to come." (James Mulholland, Modern Philology, Vol. 117 (4), February 28, 2020)

"This is an impressive, subtle, and well-informed book that links the emergence of cultural nationalism in Scotland, Wales and England during the eighteenth century with the editing of archaic texts and the use of poetic metre. ... the book is especially valuable for that reason. ... This insightful and original book will have a significant influence on Romantic studies, most especially in its intelligent balancing of metrical and historical forms of knowledge." (David Stewart, The BARS Review, Issue 53, 2019)

"Lively, insightful, and detailed, this study explores broad historiographic trends that focus on the dynamics of