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List Of Welsh-language Authors
For Welsh language poets prior to 1600, see List of Welsh language poets. A * Richard Ithamar Aaron (1901–1987) *William Ambrose (Emrys) (1813–1873) *Gwynn ap Gwilym (1950–2016) * Charles Ashton (1848–1898) B *William Ambrose Bebb (1894–1953) * Tom Beynon (1886–1961) *John Blackwell (Alun) (1797–1841) * Käthe Bosse-Griffiths (1910–1998) * David James Bowen (1925–2017) *Euros Bowen (1904–1988) * Geraint Bowen (1915–2011) *Siôn Bradford (1706–1785) * Robert Bryan (1858–1920) C * Rhys Cadwaladr ( fl. 1666–1690) * David Charles (1762–1834) *Thomas Charles (1755–1814) *Irma Chilton (1930–1990) * Morys Clynnog (1525–1581) D *Aneirin Talfan Davies (1909–1980) *Edward Tegla Davies (1880–1967) *Gareth Alban Davies (1926–2009) *Grahame Davies (born 1964) *James Kitchener Davies (1902–1952) *John Davies (Dr John Davies, Mallwyd) (c. 1567–1644) *John Cadvan Davies (1846–1923) *John Humphreys Davies (1871–1926) *Lewis Davies (1863–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Welsh Language Poets
Much of Welsh language poetry has, until quite recently, been composed in various forms of strict metre (''canu caeth''), latterly with the encouragement of the eisteddfod movement. The following list is as inclusive as possible for the years prior to 1600. It includes as many minor poets as possible to illustrate the range and content of Welsh poetry throughout the ages. However much early poetry has been lost, and much medieval verse is either anonymous or, usually in the case of mythological poems and prophetic verse, attributed to the 6th-century poet Taliesin or the mythical figure of Myrddin. Early religious and gnomic verse is also usually anonymous. Where possible examples of each poet's surviving work is presented aWelsh Poetry at Wikisource Each period of the poets listed below is accompanied by a graphical timeline to illustrate the main events and individuals that influenced the poets and their work. These timelines also depict the development of the Welsh language. Fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Charles
Thomas Charles (14 October 17555 October 1814) was a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist clergyman of considerable importance in the history of modern Wales. Early life Charles was born of humble parentage at Longmoor, in the parish of Llanfihangel Abercywyn, near St Clears, Carmarthenshire. He was educated for the Anglican ministry at Llanddowror and Carmarthen, and at Jesus College, Oxford (1775–1778). In 1777 he studied theology under the evangelical John Newton at Olney. He was ordained deacon in 1778 on the title of the curacies of Shepton Beauchamp and Sparkford, Somerset; and took priests orders in 1780. He afterwards added to his charge at Sparkford, Lovington, South Barrow and North Barrow, and in September 1782 was presented to the perpetual curacy of South Barrow by John Hughes, Coln St Denys. Charles did not leave Sparkford until he resigned all his curacies in June 1783, and returned to Wales, marrying (on 20 August) Sarah Jones of Bala, the orphan of a flourishing s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Davies (bishop)
Richard Davies (c. 15057 November 1581) was a Welsh bishop and scholar. Life He was born in north Wales, and was educated at New Inn Hall, Oxford, becoming vicar of Maids Moreton in Buckinghamshire in 1549, and then Burnham, Buckinghamshire, in 1550. Being a reformer he took refuge at Geneva during the reign of Mary, returning to England and to parochial work after the accession of Elizabeth in 1558. His connection with Wales was renewed almost at once; for, after serving on a commission which visited the Welsh dioceses, he was, in January 1560, consecrated bishop of St Asaph, whence he was translated, early in 1561, to the bishopric of St David's. As a bishop, Davies was an earnest reformer, very industrious, active and liberal, but not very scrupulous with regard to the property of the church. He was a member of the Council of Wales and the Marches, was very friendly with Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury, and was regarded both by Parker and by William Cecil, Lord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennar Davies
William Thomas Pennar Davies (12 November 1911 – 29 December 1996) was a Welsh clergyman and author. Born William Thomas Davies, in Mountain Ash, the son of a miner, he took the name "Pennar" (a stream in Mountain Ash and the root of its Welsh name ''Aberpennar'') "as a sign of his identification with the native culture of Wales". Pennar Davies studied at University of Wales, Cardiff, at Balliol and Mansfield College, Oxford, and at Yale University. In 1943 he became a Congregational minister in Cardiff. He was subsequently professor of Church History at Bala-Bangor Theological College and Brecon Congregational Memorial College, was Principal of Brecon Congregational Memorial College from 1950 and Principal of Swansea Memorial College from 1959 until his retirement in 1979. Davies wrote poetry under the pseudonym Davies Aberpennar. Until about 1948 he wrote in both Welsh and English, and after this almost exclusively in Welsh, which he had learnt as a young man. A member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Davies
Arthur Lewis Davies (26 January 1913 – 9 December 2011), the younger brother of Rhys Davies, was a Welsh librarian and philanthropist who in his later years established a foundation (the Rhys Davies Trust) devoted to the promotion of Welsh writing in English. Early life Davies was born in the coalmining village of Blaenclydach, near Tonypandy, to parents who operated a grocery store and were careful to educate all their six children to keep them from having to be employed in the coal mines. Like his more famous brother Rhys, he was gay and for that reason decided against a career in the Anglican priesthood.Meic Stephens Lewis Davies: Philanthropist and librarian whose generosity benefited many Welsh writers' Obituary in The Independent, 27 December 2011. Accessed 6 March 2012. Career He studied History at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, later training there also at their College of Librarianship to become a librarian. In 1937 Davies secured an assistant librarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Humphreys Davies
John Humphreys Davies (15 April 1871 – 10 August 1926) was a Welsh lawyer, bibliographer and educator. He joined the movement to start a National Library of Wales. Family and schooling Born at Llangeitho, Ceredigion, he was the son of Robert J. Davies, Cwrtmawr. He was educated at the Aberystywth University, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and Lincoln College, Oxford, before being called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. Welsh literature Davies's interest in Welsh literature is associated with O. M. Edwards at Oxford University, Oxford and to his brother-in-law, T. E. Ellis. Along with Sir John Williams, 1st Baronet, of the City of London, Sir John Williams, who became his President while Principal at Aberystwyth, Davies was involved in the movement to establish a National Library for Wales. He was President of Aberystwyth Old Students' Association in 1907–1908. Public life From an early age Davies became involved in public life, being elected an alderman of Cardiganshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cadvan Davies
John Cadvan Davies (1846–1923) was a Wesleyan Methodist Minister and a Welsh poet, who served as Archdruid. He is better known in Wales by his bardic name, Cadfan (sometimes Cadvan). Life and career Cadvan was born on a small farm, Yr Allt, in the village of Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire (now Powys), on 1 October 1846, as the son of David and Jane Davies. He joined the Wesleyan ministry in 1871 and worked in most of the North Wales circuits and in Liverpool. He was President of the Assembly in 1910. He was among the editors of the Wesleyan hymn-book of 1900, which includes several of his hymns. Others can be found in the publication ''Llyfr Emynau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd a Wesleaidd'' of 1927. "Heroic" verses of his earned him prizes – at a national eisteddfod In Welsh culture, an ''eisteddfod'' is an institution and festival with several ranked competitions, including in poetry and music. The term ''eisteddfod'', which is formed from the Welsh morphemes: , meaning 'si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Davies (Dr John Davies, Mallwyd)
John Davies, Mallwyd ( – 1644) was one of Wales's leading scholars of the late Renaissance. He wrote a Welsh grammar and dictionary. He was also a translator and editor and an ordained minister of the Church of England. Born in Llanferres, Denbighshire, the son of a weaver, he graduated from Jesus College, Oxford in 1594. His name is traditionally associated with the parish of Mallwyd, Gwynedd, where he was rector from 1604 until his death in 1644. He is believed to have been the main editor and reviser of the 1620 edition of the Welsh translation of the Bible and the 1621 edition of the Welsh translation of the Book of Common Prayer. He published a Welsh grammar in Latin in 1621, ''Antiquae linguae Britannicae ...'', and a Welsh–Latin Latin–Welsh dictionary in 1632, ''Antiquae linguae Britannicae ... et linguae Latinae dictionarium duplex''. In 1632 he also published , a masterly translation and Protestant adaptation of (1582) by English Roman Catholic Robert Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Kitchener Davies
James Kitchener Davies (16 June 1902 – 25 August 1952), also known as J. Kitchener Davies, was a Welsh poet and playwright who wrote mostly in the Welsh language. Davies's work is highly influenced by the industrial landscape of his adopted village of Trealaw in the Rhondda Valley and his own nationalistic beliefs. Biography Born and brought up in Llangeitho in Ceredigion, Davies spent his working life in the newly industrialised coalfields of the Rhondda Valley. The sometimes bleak conditions of his early life, especially as his early adulthood coincided with the economic despair of the depression, is reflected in his plays. Davies was part of the Cadwgan Circle, a literary group of likeminded writers from Rhondda, that centred their image of Wales on the new industrialised society they were brought up in. Members of the Circle included Rhydwen Williams, Pennar Davies and Gareth Alban Davies. His early play ''Cwm Glo'' (1934) was seen as controversial because it dealt with the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grahame Davies
Grahame Davies LVO (born 1964) is a poet, author, editor, librettist, literary critic and former journalist. He was brought up in the former coal mining village of Coedpoeth near Wrexham in north east Wales. Education After gaining a degree in English Literature at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, he qualified as a journalist with the Thomson Organisation at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In 1997, he was awarded a doctorate by the University of Wales for his study, written in Welsh, of the work of R. S. Thomas, Saunders Lewis, T.S. Eliot and Simone Weil, whom he identified as part of an anti-modern trend in Western culture in the 20th Century. Work His career as a journalist and producer between 1986 and 2012 brought him a number of Welsh and industry awards. In 1997, his first volume of poetry, Adennill Tir (Barddas), a book arising from the 10 years he spent in Merthyr Tydfil in the south Wales Valleys, won the Harri Webb Memorial Prize. In 1999, his study of Wales and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Alban Davies
Gareth Alban Davies (30 July 1926 – 9 February 2009) was a Welsh poet, educator and Hispanist who was Cowdray Professor of Spanish at the University of Leeds. Davies translated many Spanish texts into English and Welsh, and was a noted expert on the works of Fernando Arrabal and Federico García Lorca. Biography Davies was born in Ton Pentre in the Rhondda in 1926. His father was The Reverend T. Alban Davies, a Congregationalist preacher who practised at Bethesda Church in Ton Pentre. His father was a Welsh speaker and an early member of Plaid Cymru, the Nationalist political party of Wales. His father was a large influence on Davies' moral viewpoint, and instilled in him a nationalistic and egalitarian ethos. While still a schoolboy, Davies was introduced to the Cadwgan Circle, a group of writers and thinkers from the Rhondda, who met at the house of J. Gwyn Griffiths and his wife Käte Bosse-Griffiths. Although the youngest of the group, he contributed poems to an anth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Tegla Davies
Edward Tegla Davies (1880–1967) was a Welsh Wesleyan Methodist minister and a popular Welsh language writer, born at Llandegla-yn-Iâl, Denbighshire, north Wales. His works include a number of children's books which display his rich imagination and sometimes surreal humour, the novel ''Gŵr Pen y Bryn'' (1923), short stories and a series of essays. Among the latter is the collection ''Gyda'r Hwyr'' (1957), including ''Y Bedd Hwnnw'' ("That Grave") recording a visit to the grave of the Blessed John Henry Newman at Rubery (Longbridge) near Birmingham, and ''Y Wraig o'r Wyddgrug'' ("The Woman from Mold"), in which he meets, in Manchester, someone who knew the Welsh novelist, Daniel Owen, in her youth. A Cabinet Office release in 2012http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120404175744/http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/document2012%2D01%2D24%2D075439.pdf shows that he declined an OBE in the New Year Honours The New Year Honours is a part of the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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