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Jones, Owen, Morganwg, Iolo, and Pughe, William Owen. The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 3 vols., London, 1801–7

Owen, William. The Heroic Elegies of Llywarç Hen, London, 1792

Williams, Edward. Poems, Lyric and Pastoral, 2 vols., London, 1794

Williams, John (ab Ithel) (ed.), Barddas, 2 vols, i Llandovery, 1862; ii London, 1874

Williams (ed.), Taliesin. Cyfrinach Beirdd Ynys Prydain: ys ef Llwybreiddiaeth ag Athrawiaeth ar y Farddoniaeth Gymraeg a'i Pherthynasau, yn ol Trefn a Dosparth y Prif Feirdd gynt ar y Gelfyddyd wrth Gerdd Dafod (Abertawy, 1829)
(ed.). Cyfrinach Beirdd Ynys Prydain, Abertawy, 1829

Iolo Manuscripts: A Selection of Ancient Welsh Manuscripts, in Prose and Verse, from the collection made by the late Edward Williams, Iolo Morganwg; for the Purpose of forming a continuation of the Myfyrian Archaiology; and Subsequently Proposed as Materials for a New History of Wales (Llandovery, 1848).

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Butler, Marilyn. Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background 1760–1830, Oxford, 1981

Cannon, John, and Constantine, Mary-Ann. 'A Welsh Bard in Wiltshire: Iolo Morganwg, Silbury and the Sarsens', Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 97 (2004), 78–88

Carr, Glenda. William Owen Pughe, Caerdydd, 1983
William Owen Pughe, Caernarfon, 1993
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'Bwrlwm bywyd y Cymry yn Llundain yn y ddeunawfed ganrif' in Geraint H. Jenkins (ed.), Cof Cenedl XI: Ysgrifau ar Hanes Cymru, Llandysul, 1996, pp. 59–87

Charnell-White, Cathryn. Barbarism and Bardism: North Wales versus South Wales in the Bardic Vision of Iolo Morganwg, Aberystwyth, 2004
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Constantine, Mary-Ann. The Truth Against the World: Iolo Morganwg and Romantic Forgery, Cardiff, 2007
'Combustible Matter': Iolo Morganwg and the Bristol Volcano, Aberystwyth, 2003
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'Pious Frauds and Perjurers: Iolo Morganwg's Truth Against The World' in Peter Knight and Jonathan Long (eds.), Fakes and Forgeries, Cambridge, 1994, pp. 119–34
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Crowe, Richard M. 'Diddordebau Ieithyddol Iolo Morganwg', unpublished University of Wales Ph.D. thesis, 1988
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Davies, Ann Elsbeth. 'Cerddi Serch a Natur Iolo Morganwg', unpublished University of Wales M.Phil. thesis, 1999

Davies, Andrew. '“The Reputed Nation of Inspiration”: Representations of Wales in Fiction from the Romantic Period, 1780-1830', unpublished University of Wales Ph.D. thesis, 2001
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Davies, Caryl. Adfeilion Babel: Agweddau ar Syniadaeth Ieithyddol y Ddeunawfed Ganrif , Caerdydd, 2000

Davies, D. Elwyn. 'Astudiaeth o Feddwl a Chyfraniad Iolo Morganwg fel Rhesymolwr ac Undodwr', unpublished University of Wales Ph.D. thesis, 1975

Davies, Damian Walford. Presences that Disturb: Models of Romantic Identity in the Literature and Culture of the 1790s, Cardiff, 2002
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Dearnley, Moira. '“Mad Ned” and the “Smatter-Dasher”: Iolo Morganwg and Edward “Celtic” Davies' in Geraint H. Jenkins (ed.), Rattleskull Genius: The Many Faces of Iolo Morganwg, Cardiff, 2005, 425–42

Edwards, Huw Meirion. 'A Multitude of Voices: The Free-Metre Poetry of Iolo Morganwg' in Geraint H. Jenkins (ed.), Rattleskull Genius: The Many Faces of Iolo Morganwg, Cardiff, 2005, 95–121

Ellis, Tecwyn. 'Bardd y Brenin, Iolo Morganwg a Derwyddiaeth', NLWJ, XIII (1963–4), 147–56, 224–34; XIV (1965–6), 183–93, 321–9, 424–36; XV (1967–8), 177–96
'Ymweliadau Iolo Morganwg â Meirionnydd', Journal of Merioneth Historical and Record Society, V, part III (1967), 239–50

Fitzpatrick, Martin. 'The “Cultivated Undertanding” and Chaotic Genius of David Samwell' in Geraint H. Jenkins (ed.), Rattleskull Genius: The Many Faces of Iolo Morganwg, Cardiff, 2005, 383–402

Huws, Daniel. 'Iolo Morganwg and Traditional Music' in Geraint H. Jenkins (ed.), Rattleskull Genius: The Many Faces of Iolo Morganwg, Cardiff, 2005, 333–56
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Jenkins, Geraint H. Facts, Fantasy and Fiction: The Historical Vision of Iolo Morganwg, Aberystwyth, 1997
'Perish Kings and Emperors, but Let the Bard of Liberty Live', Aberystwyth, 2006
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'Cyffesion bwytawr opiwm: Iolo Morganwg a Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain', Taliesin 81 (1993), 45–57
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'Iolo Morganwg and the Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain', Studia Celtic Japonica, 7 (1995), 365–86
'The Bard of Liberty during William Pitt's Reign of Terror' in Joseph Falaky Nagy and Leslie Ellen Jones (eds.), Heroic Poets and Poetic Heroes in Celtic Tradition: A Festschrift for Patrick K. Ford, CSANA Yearbook 3–4, Dublin, 2005, pp. 183–206
'The Unitarian Firebrand, the Cambrian Society and the Eisteddfod' in Geraint H. Jenkins (ed.), Rattleskull Genius: The Many Faces of Iolo Morganwg, Cardiff, 2005, 269–92
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Jones, David Ceri. 'Fictions of the Self in the Correspondence of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg, 1727–1826)' in Tim Burke, Steve Clark and Katherine Turner (eds.), Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century, London, forthcoming
'“Mere Humbug”: Iolo Morganwg and the Board of Agriculture, 1796–1815', THSC, 10 (2004), 76–97
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Lewis, Ceri W. Iolo Morganwg, Caernarfon, 1995
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Lewis, Gwyneth, 'Eighteenth-century literary forgeries with special reference to the work of Iolo Morganwg', unpublished University of Oxford D.Phil. thesis, 1991
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Phillips, Geraint. 'Math o Wallgofrwydd: Iolo Morganwg, Opium a Thomas Chatterton', NLWJ, XXIX, no. 4 (1996), 391–410
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Phillips, W. J. 'Iolo Morganwg and the Rees family of Gelligron', NLWJ, XIV (1965–6), 227–36.

Roberts, Brynley. 'Mab ei dad: Taliesin ab Iolo Morganwg' in Hywel Teifi Edwards (ed.) Merthyr a Thaf, Llandysul, 2001, pp. 57–93
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Suggett, Richard. 'Iolo Morganwg: Stonecutter, Builder, and Antiquary' in Geraint H. Jenkins (ed.), Rattleskull Genius: The Many Faces of Iolo Morganwg, Cardiff, 2005, 197–226

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Waugh, Margaret. 'The bard ate grass', Country Quest, 27/11 (1987), 24–5

Whittaker, Paul. 'The tablature of the Iolo Morganwg manuscripts (British Library, MS Add 14970)', Welsh Music History, 3 (1999), 252–70

Williams, Elizabeth. 'Iolo Morganwg in Denbighshire', Denbighshire Historical Society, 16 (1967), 82–99

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Iolo Morganwg. BBC Annual Lecture, Cardiff, 1963
'Brut Aberpergwm: a Version of the Chronicle of the Princes' in Stewart Williams (ed.), The Glamorgan Historian, IV, Cowbridge, 1967, pp. 205–20.
'Bywyd Cymreig Llundain yng Nghyfnod Owain Myfyr', Y Llenor, XVIII, nos. 2 and 4 (1939), 73–82, 218–32
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'Gorsedd y Beirdd a'r Seiri Rhyddion', LlC, VII, nos. 3 and 4 (1962), 213–16
'Rhys Goch ap Rhiccert', Y Beirniad, VIII, no. 4 (1919), 211–26, 260
'Wil Hocyn and the Maid of Cefn Ydfa', trans. Mrs E. E. Williams, in Stewart Williams ed.), The Glamorgan Historian, VI, Cowbridge, 1969, pp. 228–51
'Yr Eisteddfod a'r Orsedd', Y Llenor, I, no. 2 (1922), 131–8

Williams, Gwyn A., Artisans and Sans-Culottes: Popular Movements in France and Britain during the French Revolution, 2nd edn., London, 1989
Madoc: The Making of a Myth, London, 1979
The Search for Beulah Land, London, 1980
When Was Wales? A History of the Welsh, Harmondsworth, 1985
'Druids and Democrats: organic intellectuals and the first Welsh nation' in idem., The Welsh in their History, London, 1982, 31–64.
'Iolo Morganwg: Bardd Rhamantaidd ar gyfer Cenedl nad oedd yn cyfrif' in Geraint H. Jenkins (ed.), Cof Cenedl V: Ysgrifau ar Hanes Cymru, Llandysul, 1990, pp. 57–84
'People's Remembrancers to a Welsh Republic', Radical Wales, 12 (Autumn 1986), 18–19
'Romanticism in Wales' in Roy Porter and Mikuláš Teich (eds.), Romanticism in National Context, Cambridge, 1988, pp. 9–36

Williams, Ifor. 'Rhys Goch ap Rhiccert', Y Beirniad, III, no. 4 (1913), 230–44

Wright, Herbert G. 'The relations of the Welsh bard Iolo Morganwg with Dr. Johnson, Cowper and Southey', Review of English Studies, VIII, 129–38

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