A first-person retelling of the story of Iolo Morganwg – from his boyhood to the Glynogwr Gorsedd of 1798. Iolo Morganwg had many faces: stonemason, self-taught scholar, poet, hymnist, politician, patriot, revolutionary, druid, failed businessman, drug addict, campaigner for human rights and perpetrator of the greatest act of literary forgery in European history.

• This book
• Gorsedd Glynogwr 1798
• Part One: 1760 to 1773
• 1 - Good with words
• 2 - Carving the letters
• 3 - Ann Matthew
• 4 - Mabsant
• 5 - Hendre Ifan Goch
• 6 - An apparition
• 7 - High designs
• 8 - The Reverend John Walters
• 9 - Kitty Deere
• 10 - Print shop
• 11 - On the road
• 12 - Kitty Deere again
• 13 - The Marriage of True Minds
• Part Two: London 1773 to 1776
• 1 - Westminster bridge
• 2 - The streets of London
• 3 - The fog
• 4 - Hyde Park Corner
• 5 - The Gwyneddigion
• 6 - Good company
• 7 - A falling out
• 8 - Kent
• Part Three: Vale of Glamorgan 1777 to 1786
• 1 - Avebury, Bristol and Minehead
• 2 - Welcome home
• 3 - John Walters’ family
• 4 - Glamorgan
• 5 - Beaupre
• 6 - Dafydd ap Gwilym
• 7 - The promised land
• 8 - Peggy
• 9 - Business
• 10 - Ieuan Fardd
• 11 - A business opportunity
• 12 - Margaret
• 13 - The Lion
• 14 - A letter to Owain
• 15 - Chatterton
• 16 - Truth
• 17 - The Reverend James Evans
• 18 - The happiness of Glamorgan
• 19 - Beaupre Woods
• 20 - A knock at the door
• Part Four: Cardiff Gaol 1786 to 1787
• 1 - A small world
• 2 - Fellowship
• 3 - Come read my new ballad
• 4 - Succession
• 5 - Ancient secrets
• 6 - A petition
• 7 - Rhys Goch
• 8 - My own petition
• 9 - Will Tabwr
• 10 - Julie
• 11 - Release
• Part Five: Glamorgan and Bath 1787 to 1791
• 1 - Family
• 2 - On Affric’s beach
• 3 - William Owen
• 4 - July 1789 – Wyndham for ever
• 5 - Great means of enterprise
• 6 - Sampson’s Pillar
• 7 - First impressions
• 8 - ‘The Fair Pilgrim’
• 9 - The prospect fair before me
• Part Six: London 1791 to 1795
• 1 - Mrs William Owen
• 2 - London
• 3 - This business of publication
• 4 - Welsh Indians
• 5 - Radical thoughts
• 6 - Bard by rite and privilege
• 7 - Mrs Nicholl and the Bowdlers
• 8 - Southey and Coleridge
• 9 - Joseph Johnson, Paternoster Row
• 10 - This wilderness business of publication
• 11 - Brook’s Market, Holborn
• 12 - Gorsedd, 21 June 1792
• 13 - Southey, Coleridge, Evans and Louis XVI
• 14 - Poems, Lyric and Pastoral
• 15 - The second Gorsedd
• 16 - A time of turbulence
• 17 - The Crown and Anchor
• 18 - William Pitt and the Privy Council
• Part Seven: Glamorgan 1795 to 1798
• 1 - Books and slavery
• 2 - A theatrical gesture
• 3 - 14 High Street, Cowbridge
• 4 - Bryn Owain
• 5 - Defending the cottage
• 6 - Defending the shop
• 7 - Tomos Glyn Cothi
• Gorsedd Glynogwr 1798
• Historical note
• Bibliography
• Other sources
• Thanks
• Footnotes