Other works

Iolo's Work

A Short Account of the Ancient British Bards

Autobiographical material by Iolo Morganwg

Y Bardd yn Dychwelyd i Forgannwg Wedi bod Flynyddau lawer yn Lloegr

Barddoniaeth Dafydd ab Gwilym (1789)

Cyfrinach Beirdd Ynys Prydain (1829)

Cywydd i Ddyfalu Serch

Dagrau yr Awen neu Farwnad Lewis Hopcin Fardd, o Landyfodwg ym Morganwg

The Heroic Elegies of Llywarç Hen (1792)

The History of the Bards

Introduction to The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales:

Letter to the Gentleman's Magazine (1789)

Lewis Morris, Sarcasm on Cardigan

Ode to Laudanum

I Owain Myfyr

Plan of the Analytical Dissertation on the Welsh Language, by E.W.

Poems, Lyric and Pastoral (1794)

The Primacy of South Wales (NLW 13128A, p. 302)

Salmau yr Eglwys yn yr Anialwch

Schools of Welsh poetry, a sketch (NLW 13098B, pp. 87–90)

Travel Journal 1796

Trial by Jury (1795)

 

The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales (1801-07)

Although Owain Myfyr and William Owen Pughe supported Iolo's aim of publishing 'The History of the Bards', they channelled their own energies into publishing the three-volume compendium of Welsh medieval poetry and prose, The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales (1801–07). The enterprise was largely financed by Owain Myfyr and Pughe began work on it in 1798. The second volume, published in 1801, included the following forgeries: a series of triads, two forged chronicles, 'Brut Aberpergwm' and 'Brut Ieuan Brechfa', which followed the rubric of Brut y Tywysogyon. The spurious 'Doethineb y Cymry' (The Wisdom of the Welsh) was included in the third volume published in 1807. Iolo even toyed with the notion of including 'Cyfrinach Beirdd Ynys Prydain' in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales.

In addition to the fabricated ancient bardic texts published in the second volume, the well-informed 'A Short Review of the Present State of Welsh Manuscripts' which prefaced the first volume was mostly penned by Iolo himself.

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