Madoc

Madoc is thus as much the document of Southey's anxious struggle to exalt imperial protectionism as a unifier of conqueror and conquered as it is a tale of how Prince Madoc conquered

Article Abstracts 2006

Again, the reader of Madoc is confronted with a seemingly unassimilable composite identification with both the colonial aggressor and his victim.

The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism 2006

Madoc is drawn into war, but only, Southey insists, to protect the innocent Hoamen.

The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism 2006

But when Madoc is drawn into tribal warfare on behalf of his new

The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism 2006

I intend to versify it — put the lines in Madoc, & give your account below in the note. to me who had never seen any other but the tame shores of this island, the giant rocks of Galicia appeared stupendously sublime. they even

Letter 207 1805

Giraldo Cambrensis Southey made use of in Madoc (1805).

Letter 240 1798

Madoc is again at a stand. for the new edition occupies me.

Letter 253 1797

Joan of Arc was a whole. it was something to think of every moment of solitude — & to dream of at night. my heart was in the poem — I threw my own feelings into it in my own language. aye — & out of one & another — my own character. seriously Grosvenor to go on with Madoc is almost necessary to my happiness.

Letter 162 1794

Madoc is to be the pillar of my reputation. how many a melancholy hour have I beguiled by writing poetry!

Letter 136 1793

Samaranth had never been anything but patient with him, showing faith and fortitude as he tried to teach the young man called Madoc how to make his way in the world.

The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010