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Oxford Book Of Welsh Verse In English
''The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English'' was a 1977 poetry anthology edited by the author and academic Gwyn Jones. It covered both Welsh language poetry, in English translation, and Welsh poets writing in English (often called Anglo-Welsh poetry Welsh writing in English ( Welsh: ''Llenyddiaeth Gymreig yn Saesneg''), (previously Anglo-Welsh literature) is a term used to describe works written in the English language by Welsh writers. The term ‘Anglo-Welsh’ replaced an earlier atte ...). Poets in ''The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English'' Publication details * * References 1977 poetry books Welsh-language literature Welsh literature Welsh poetry Poetry anthologies Anglo-Welsh literature Welsh Verse in English, Oxford Book of British poetry anthologies {{Wales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford Book Of Welsh Verse In English
''The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English'' was a 1977 poetry anthology edited by the author and academic Gwyn Jones. It covered both Welsh language poetry, in English translation, and Welsh poets writing in English (often called Anglo-Welsh poetry Welsh writing in English ( Welsh: ''Llenyddiaeth Gymreig yn Saesneg''), (previously Anglo-Welsh literature) is a term used to describe works written in the English language by Welsh writers. The term ‘Anglo-Welsh’ replaced an earlier atte ...). Poets in ''The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English'' Publication details * * References 1977 poetry books Welsh-language literature Welsh literature Welsh poetry Poetry anthologies Anglo-Welsh literature Welsh Verse in English, Oxford Book of British poetry anthologies {{Wales-stub ... [...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] |
Owen Gruffydd
Owen Gruffydd (1643-1730) was a Welsh poet partly noted for a lament on the decline of the Welsh language in the early 18th century. Not much is known about Owen Gruffydd's early life and career except that he was born in the parish of Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire. It is likely that he lived much of his life there and in the outlying parishes. Gruffydd was a weaver by profession. He was, however, known more for his poetic gifts. He also earned a name as a genealogist. Poems Gruffydd's poems were mostly composed in honor of the aristocracy living in the surrounding countryside. He wrote such poems in the old Welsh tradition. He also wrote some other types poems which were more popular verse. An example of these were the carols for Christmastide. Selected works of Gruffydd were published in Carolau a Dyriau Duwiol (1688), in Blodeu Gerdd Cymry (1759) and in Gwaith Owen Gruffydd (1904), edited by O. M. Edwards. A large collection of his works is archived in the British Museum and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gruffudd Ab Yr Ynad Coch
Gruffudd ab yr Ynad Coch ( fl. 1277–1282) was a Welsh court poet. Gruffudd composed a number of poems on the theme of religion. His greatest fame however, lies with his moving elegy for Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales Prince of Wales ( cy, Tywysog Cymru, ; la, Princeps Cambriae/Walliae) is a title traditionally given to the heir apparent to the English and later British throne. Prior to the conquest by Edward I in the 13th century, it was used by the rulers ..., which is widely considered to be one of the finest poems in Welsh and medieval European literature. See alsoGruffudd ab Yr Ynad Coch at Wikisource References *Dafydd Johnston, ''Oral Tradition in Medieval Welsh Poetry: 1100-1600'', University of Wales, 2003 Welsh-language poets 13th-century Welsh poets {{Wales-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Griffiths
Ann Griffiths (née Thomas, 1776–1805) was a Welsh poet and writer of Methodist Christian hymns in the Welsh language. Her poetry reflects her fervent Christian faith and thorough scriptural knowledge. Biography Ann was born in April 1776 near the village of Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa, from the market town of Llanfyllin in the former county of Montgomeryshire (now in Powys). She was the daughter of John Evan Thomas, a tenant farmer and churchwarden, and his wife, Jane. She had two older sisters, an older brother, John, and a younger brother, Edward. Her parents' house, Dolwar Fechan, was an isolated farmhouse some south of Llanfihangel and north of Dolanog, set among hills and streams. Not far away lay Pennant Melangell, where Saint Melangell had lived as a hermit in the 6th century. Ann was brought up in the Anglican church. In 1794, her mother died when she was 18, and about that time or perhaps earlier she followed her brothers John and Edward in being drawn to the Met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llewelyn Wyn Griffith
Llewelyn Wyn Griffith CBE (30 August 1890 – 27 September 1977) was a Welsh novelist, born in Llandrillo yn Rhos, Clwyd. A captain in the 15th Royal Welch Fusiliers, part of the 38th (Welsh) Division during the First World War, he is known for his memoir, '' Up to Mametz'', which he wrote in the early 1920s, although the work was not published until 1931. Griffith was a career civil servant, and rose to a senior post in the Inland Revenue. He was a key helper to Sir Ernest Gowers in the writing of ''Plain Words'' in 1948. He was a well-known broadcaster, a founder-member of the Round Britain Quiz team. After retirement from the Inland Revenue he served as vice chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain."Dr Llewelyn Wyn Griffith – Distinguished Welsh writer and broadcaster", ''The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margiad Evans
Margiad Evans was the pseudonym of Peggy Eileen Whistler (17 March 1909 – 17 March 1958), an English poet, novelist and illustrator with a lifelong identification with the Welsh border country.Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan: 'Williams , Peggy Eileen argiad Evans(1909–1958)’. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, May 2010retrieved 1 July 2010 Life and works Evans was born Peggy Whistler in Uxbridge, Middlesex, the daughter of Godfrey James Whistler (1866–1936), an insurance clerk. Her affection for the Herefordshire countryside grew from visits she began to pay in 1918 to an aunt in Ross-on-Wye. The family moved to nearby Bridstow in 1921. She was educated in Ross and at Hereford School of Art. She took her pen name from her father's mother, whose name was Evans. Her two most famous works are ''Country Dance'' (1932) and her ''Autobiography'' (1943, 2nd edn, 1952). ''Country Dance'' (serialized on BBC radio in 2006) was followed by three furth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Evans (poet)
Evan Evans (20 May 1731 – 4 August 1788) (bardic name ', also known as ') was a Welsh-language poet, clergyman, antiquary and literary critic. Evans, son of Jenkin Evans, was born at Cynhawdref, in the parish of Lledrod, Cardiganshire. He received his education at the grammar school of Ystrad Meurig, under the scholar and poet Edward Richard. He moved to Oxford, and entered Merton College in 1751 but left without graduating. He had conveyed a small freehold in Cardiganshire to his younger brother for £100, in order to support himself at the university. By 1754 he had been ordained as a priest, and he served as curate in at least eighteen different parishes, including at Newick in Sussex, at Tywyn in Merionethshire, at Llanberis and Llanllechid in Carnarvonshire, and at Llanfair Talhaiarn in Denbighshire. Life and career From an early age he cultivated poetry, and he was soon noticed by Lewis Morris the antiquary. He diligently applied himself to the study of Welsh litera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Ellis (clergyman)
Robert Morton Stanley Ellis (1 April 1898 – 2 November 1966) was a Welsh author and a minister with the Presbyterian Church of Wales (the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists). Ellis was born on the Flintshire coast, but spent much of his childhood in Glanaman, a Welsh-speaking coalmining village in the Amman Valley in Carmarthenshire. He left school aged 12 and worked in a shop, then as a coalminer and as a tinplate worker. He started lay preaching at Bethania Presbyterian church, Glanaman, and was trained for the ministry at the Presbyterian colleges at Aberystwyth and Bala. He was ordained in 1925: his first churches were in Cardiganshire. In 1930 he returned to the Amman valley, as minister of Caersalem Chapel, Ty Croes, on the outskirts of Ammanford, where he remained for 36 years. In 1965 he was elected as Moderator of the South Wales South Wales ( cy, De Cymru) is a loosely defined region of Wales bordered by England to the east and mid Wales to the north. Generally conside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Earley
Thomas Francis Aloysius Earley (February 19, 1917 – April 5, 1988) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played six seasons with the Boston Bees / Braves from 1938 to 1942 and 1945. In between his playing days Earley served in the United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ... during World War II from 1943 to 1944. References External links Boston Bees players Boston Braves players 1917 births 1988 deaths Baseball players from Boston Major League Baseball pitchers Portsmouth Pirates players Scranton Miners players Hartford Laurels players Hartford Bees players St. Paul Saints (AA) players Indianapolis Indians players Tulsa Oilers (baseball) players {{US-baseball-pitcher-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dyer
John Dyer (1699 – 15 December 1757) was a painter and Welsh poet who became a priest in the Church of England.Shaw, Thomas B. ''A Complete Manual of English Literature''. Ed. William Smith. New York: Sheldon & Co., 1872. 372. Print. He was most recognised for '' Grongar Hill'', one of six early poems featured in a 1726 miscellany. Longer works published later include the less successful genre poems, ''The Ruins of Rome'' (1740) and ''The Fleece'' (1757). His work has always been more anthologised than published in separate editions, but his talent was later recognised by William Wordsworth among others. Life and career Youth John Dyer was the fourth of six children born to Robert and Catherine Cocks Dyer in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, five miles from Grongar Hill. His exact birth date is unknown, but the earliest existing record of John Dyer dates his baptism on 13 August 1699 – within fourteen days after his birth as was the tradition of the time – in Llanfynnydd pari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwallter Mechain
Walter Davies (15 July 1761 – 5 December 1849), commonly known by his bardic name Gwallter Mechain ("Walter of Mechain"), was a Welsh poet, editor, translator, antiquary and Anglican clergyman. Davies was born at Y Wern, near Tomen y Castell, Llanfechain, Montgomeryshire. He was educated at the village school and was to become a cooper, but with the help of the poet Owain Myfyr went to All Souls College, Oxford, graduating in 1795. He took Holy Orders and became a Church of England curate in the parish of Meifod, Montgomeryshire, moving in 1799 to Ysbyty Ifan, Denbighshire where he met and married his wife Mary. He went on to study at Trinity College, Cambridge, gaining his MA in 1803. He was awarded the living of Llanwyddelan, Montgomeryshire and became rector of Manafon, Montgomeryshire where he remained for 30 years and did most of his literary work. In 1797 he had begun a survey of the agriculture and economy of North Wales, which was published in two volumes in 1810 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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