LEWYS ap HYWEL (or POWEL) (fl. c. 1560-1600), poet
Gender: Male
Occupation: poet
Area of activity: Poetry
Author: Ray Looker
No details concerning him are available, but from the fact that the subjects of his poetry of praise and elegy were mainly persons from Denbighshire and Flintshire, it is probable that the poet himself was a native of that part of Wales. A number of his poems remain in MSS., and these include cywyddau addressed to William Mostyn of Mostyn, Pierce Mostyn of Talacre, William Holland of Hendre fawr, and an awdl to Thomas Pryse of S. Asaph; two religious poems, one of them being anti-Papist in treatment, also remain.
Author
- Ray Looker
- Additional Manuscripts in the British Museum 14875, 14906, 24980
- Cardiff Manuscript 11
- Gwysaney MS. at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 25
- Jes. Coll. MS. at the Bodleian Library, Oxford 16
- NLW Archives: Llanstephan MS 49: Flyting poetry, &c.
- NLW Archives: Llanstephan MS 122: Poetry
- NLW Archives: NLW MS 3037B, NLW MS 3048D
- NLW Archives: NLW MS 435B, NLW MS 1559B
- NLW Archives: Peniarth MS 75: Pedigrees
- Robert Williams, Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (1852)
- 'Gweirydd ap Rhys,' Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig, 1300–1650 (1885)
Sources
- Wikidata: Q20733813
Additional Links
Published date: 1959
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