LEWIS MENAI (fl. in the second half of the 16th cent.), poet

He graduated as a disgybl pencerddaidd at the Caerwys eisteddfod of 1568. His patrons included the families of Bodeon, Bodfel, Clenennau, Llwydiarth, Myfyrian, Mysoglen, Penrhyn, Plas Newydd, and Ystumcegid. Love poems and englynion are also among his compositions. There is a collection of his poems in Llanst. MS. 122 (236-92).

Author

• Professor David James Bowen, Aberystwyth

Sources

• Peniarth Manuscript in the National Library of Wales 121 (215);
• N.L.W. Swansea Manuscript 1 (216, 220, 248);
• NLW MSS 356 (13), 6499 (307).

Additional Links

• Wikidata: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20738126

Published date: 1959

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