DAFYDD WILIAM PYRS (or PRYS) (fl. c. 1660), poet
Gender: Male
Occupation: poet
Area of activity: Poetry
Author: Ray Looker
A native, it is said, of Cynwyd, Meironnydd. No details regarding his life are known, but at least two of his poems in free metres remain. One is entitled 'Hanes yr hen ŵr o'r coed,' and the other, in the form of a dialogue between two sisters, has alternate stanzas by Mathew Owen of Llangar and himself.
Avoid confusing him with Dafydd Emlyn (Dafydd William Prys), fl. 1603-1622
Author
- Ray Looker
- NLW Archives: Cwrtmawr MS 110B(177)
- NLW Archives: Peniarth MS 239: Casgliad o farddoniaeth (306)
- NLW Archives: NLW MS 645B (1), NLW MS 653B (69), NLW MS 5284C (60)
- David Jones, Egluryn Rhyfedd (Llanrwst 1897), 1750, 3
- David Jones, Blodeu-Gerdd Cymry (Mwythig 1779), 207
- Hanes llenyddiaeth Gymreig o 1651 O.C. hyd 1850 (1893), 64
- Y Brython, 1861, iv, 328
- Edward Davies, Traethawd ar Enwogion Swydd Feirion, hen a diweddar, yn gelfyddydwyr, beirdd, gwyddonwyr, pregethwyr, 1870, 96
- Josiah Thomas Jones, Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol o Enwogion Cymru (Aberdâr 1867-70), i, 96
Sources
- Wikidata: Q20732762
Additional Links
Published date: 1959
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