Title: A vindication of the genuineness of the ancient British poems of Aneurin, Taliesin, Llywarch Hen, and Merdhin, with specimens of the poems. By Sharon Turner, F. A. S.
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. iv, 284. Signatures: A2 B-S8 T4 U2. Calf-backed boards. Stamp of Liverpool Public Libraries on title page and final page.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The present work by the English historian Sharon Turner (1768-1847) offers an important and credulous critique of the authenticity of the ancient British poems of Aneurin, Taliesin, Llywarch Hen, and Merdhin. Ian Haywood, The Making of History (London, 1986, see Bib# 477549/Fr# 652 in this collection), devotes an appendix to Turner’s Vindication (pp. 185-194).</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_995662" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>