Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763-1813

"This volume on the work of Edward Pugh comes from the pen of an experienced and highly talented author. Since his first, classic publication on the poetry of John Clare in 1972, John Barrell has shown readers of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature that texts must not be read in generic isolation from the totality of the culture--social, political, economic, artistic, literary--that surrounds them. Now, his particular gift for 'reading' pictures comes to the fore in a book that adds visual art to the wide range of genres explored in the Wales and the French Revolution series."--Ceridwen Lloyd Morgan, National Library of Wales