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The Oxford Book Of Welsh Verse
''The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse'' (1962), edited by Thomas Parry, is an anthology of Welsh-language poetry stretching from Aneirin in the 6th century to Bobi Jones in the 20th. No translations of the poems are provided, but the introduction and notes are in English. It was the first anthology to give the reader a thorough idea of Welsh poetry in its entirety through 1400 years, containing as it does 370 poems, of which 59 cannot be securely attributed while the rest are the work of 146 named poets. It went through eight editions in its first 21 years, and was supplemented in 1977 by the publication of Gwyn Jones's '' Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English''. Poets included The names in brackets are bardic names. Editorial principles ''The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse'' presents its poems in the original Welsh without translation, though the introduction and notes are in English. It is an anthology intended for the general Welsh-speaking reader rather than the pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Parry (writer)
Sir Thomas Parry Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (4 August 1904 – 22 April 1985) was a Welsh writer and academic. He was Professor of Welsh at the Bangor University, University College of North Wales, Bangor from 1947 to 1953, Librarian of the National Library of Wales from 1953 to 1958, Principal of the Aberystwyth University, University College of Wales Aberystwyth from 1958 to 1969 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales from 1961 to 1963 and 1967 to 1969. He was knighted in the 1978 Birthday Honours. Thomas Parry Library, The Thomas Parry Library located on Aberystwyth University's Llanbadarn Campus was named in his honour in 1995. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Parry, Thomas 1904 births 1985 deaths Academics of Aberystwyth University Fellows of the British Academy Knights Bachelor Welsh librarians 20th-century Welsh writers Vice-Chancellors of Aberystwyth University Vice-Chancellors of the University of Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dafydd Llwyd Mathau
Dafydd Llwyd Mathau ( fl. 1601–1629) was a 17th-century Welsh poet and strolling minstrel. It was thought by the bibliographer John Humphreys Davies (1871–1926) that he may have been from the Llangeitho area of Ceredigion (Cardiganshire). Poetry Mathau's works, written in Welsh, include poems in praise of several prominent Welsh families and a number of love poems. He is also known to have composed an awdl In Welsh poetry, an ''awdl'' () is a long poem in strict metre (i.e. ''cynghanedd''). Originally, an ''awdl'' could be a relatively short poem unified by its use of a single end-rhyme (the word is related to ''odl'', "rhyme"), using cynghanedd; ...-style verse in 1611. References Welsh male poets 17th-century Welsh poets 17th-century male writers {{Wales-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedd Wyn
Hedd Wyn (born Ellis Humphrey Evans, 13 January 188731 July 1917) was a Welsh-language poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I. He was posthumously awarded the bard's chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod. Evans, who had been awarded several chairs for his poetry, was inspired to take the bardic name ''Hedd Wyn'' (, "blessed peace") from the way sunlight penetrated the mist in the Meirionnydd valleys. Born in the village of Trawsfynydd, Wales, Evans wrote much of his poetry while working as a shepherd on his family's hill farm. His style, which was influenced by romantic poetry, was dominated by themes of nature and religion. He also wrote several war poems following the outbreak of war on the Western Front in 1914. . Early life Ellis Humphrey Evans was born on 13 January 1887 at Penlan, a house in the centre of Trawsfynydd, Meirionydd, Wales. He was the eldest of eleven children born to Evan and Mary Evans. In the spring of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Ellis (Cynddelw)
Robert Ellis (also spelt Elis; 3 February 1812 – 19 August 1875), also known by the bardic name Cynddelw, was a Welsh language poet, editor, biographer, lexicographer and eisteddfod adjudicator. He was born at Tyn y Meini, Bryndreiniog, Pen-y-Bont-Fawr, in the historic county of Montgomeryshire in Mid Wales, where he initially worked as a farm labourer. His bardic name honoured the 12th-century poet Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr. Ministry Ellis was a Baptist minister, and is not to be confused with a Calvinistic Methodist minister of the same name also during the 19th-century. Ellis served as a minister from 1836 to 1840 at Llanelian-yn-Rhos and Llanddulas, Denbighshire; from 1838 to 1840 Glyn Ceiriog in the Ceiriog Valley. From 1847 to 1862, he served aCarmel Chapel Tredegar, South Wales. Jones (1969) documented that, while in Tredegar, Ellis supported two notable local historians. First, in his capacity as one of the adjudicators at the local 1862 eisteddfod, Ellis praised t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Einion Ap Gwalchmai
The Welsh court poet Einion ap Gwalchmai ( fl. 1202–1223) was the son of the poet Gwalchmai ap Meilyr and brother of the poet Meilyr ap Gwalchmai. He lived in Gwynedd. Some lines of a praise poem to Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, Prince of Gwynedd, have survived, together with three impressive religious awdl In Welsh poetry, an ''awdl'' () is a long poem in strict metre (i.e. ''cynghanedd''). Originally, an ''awdl'' could be a relatively short poem unified by its use of a single end-rhyme (the word is related to ''odl'', "rhyme"), using cynghanedd; ...au (odes). :''Amser Mai, maith dydd, neud rhydd rhoddi'', :''Neud coed nad ceithiw, ceinlliw celli''. :''Neud llafar adar, neud gwâr gweilgi'', :''Neud gwaeddgreg gwaneg gwynt yn edwi'', :''Neud erfai ddoniau goddau gweddi'', :''Neud argel dawel, nid mau dewi''. Bibliography *J.E. Caerwyn-Williams (ed.), ''Gwaith Meilyr Brydydd a'i ddisgynyddion'' (Cardiff, 1994). Welsh-language poets 13th-century Welsh poets {{Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Tudor Jones
John Tudor Jones , also known as John Eilian (29 December 1903 – 9 March 1985) was a Welsh journalist, poet (chaired and crowned at the National Eisteddfod of Wales), literary scholar, broadcaster, and translator into Welsh of many classical songs and children's books. He dedicated his working life to the Welsh language, literature, culture and history. He believed, among other things, that "the Welsh language is the most British thing in Britain, spoken from the Firth of Clyde (Clwyd), through Cumbria (Cymru) to Dover (dwfr), before the English came in, and taken over the Channel to Brittany by emigrants" and that Welshness would survive better, as it had done for centuries, within the structure of Britain, rather than by imposing on itself an English-style "home rule" based on a culturally and historically arbitrary boundary. He played a major part in championing the concept of Gwynedd "as part of the national unity of Britain". Early life John Eilian was born in the parish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thomas Edwards
William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Liam, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenkin Morgan Edwards
Jenkin, of Franconian origin, is translated in English as " Little John" or more literally "John the little". Forename history Jen/Jean (pronounced "Jon") being a diminutive of Jehan/Jehannes* (John/Johan*) followed by kin/ken meaning little creating Jenkin or Jenken. *(Referred to as Johannes in the Latin and Germanic referring to the Bible name John.) The name "Jenkin" or "Jenken" first use in England is seen as early as 1086 as a diminutive of the English form of John. It was often translated from the Dutch/French as "John the younger" or seen as "John Jenken". The non-diminutive Jehan/Jehannes (pronounced "Jo-han/Jo-han-nes") was also translated into English as John. When Jen/Jean is present, usually given to a younger child, Jehan/Jehannes is listed as "John the elder" but, never translated as "Big John". Confusion can arise when the sire is listed as John, a son is John (the elder) and another son is John (the younger). Today, in English the term John, Senior is use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Davis (Castellhywel)
David Davis (14 February 1745 – 3 July 1827), known as "Castellhywel" or "Dafis Castellhywel" to differentiate him from others of the same name, was a Welsh minister and poet. He was born at Goetre Farm in Llangybi, Cardiganshire, and educated at Carmarthen Academy. He became a minister at Ciliau Aeron, where he married the local squire's daughter. In about 1782 he moved to Castellhywel in the Cletwr valley, where he opened a school A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compuls .... Works *''Cri Carcharor dan farn Marwolaeth'' (1792) *''Telyn Dewi'' (1824) References 1745 births 1827 deaths People from Ceredigion Welsh-language poets {{Wales-writer-stub ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
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