ウェールズ再発見(その3) : 1770年から1824年のウェールズ旅行とロマン派詩人

Abstract

Though he had visited the Wye Valley in South Wales, Thomas Gray never made a tour of North Wales. Influential tourists in North Wales in 1770s were Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn and Thomas Pennant. They all took with them artists who could record the scenery of the land in pictures. Sir Watkin was accompanied by Paul Sandby, Wyndham, by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, and Pennat, by Moses Griffith. Welsh guidebooks with their splendid illustrations were published and they made it possible for younger generation to trael through Wales on their own. Poets put final touches to Wales rediscovered by Gray, Gilpin and other artists. Wordsworth and Coleridge made pedestrian tours through North Wales in 1790s. Arter coming back from Ireland, Shelley roamed Wales from 1812 to 1813. Though the Industrial Revolution drew industrialists and many English and Irish workers to nameless Welsh valleys, Wales as an ancient land of bards was rediscovered mainly by poets and artists in the late eighteenth century.