Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, HUGH EMYR (1878 - 1950), minister (Presb.) and poet he gained prominence. He won a chair at Pwllheli when he was 16 years old, and subsequently won 22 bardic chairs. He mastered the cynganeddion, but it was in the free metres that he excelled. His collected works were published in 1907 under the title Llwyn Hudol. His pryddest to ' Branwen ferch Llŷr ' won the crown at the Caernarfon national eisteddfod (1906); and his poem, ' Owain Glyndŵr ' won
LLWYD, RICHARD (Bard of Snowdon; 1752 - 1835), poet and authority on Welsh heraldry and genealogy been living in Chester since 1807. He was elected an honorary member of the Cymmrodorion Society in 1824. One of his last acts was to place in the B.M. the 'Branwen ferch Llŷr' sepulchral urn discovered in 1813 on the banks of the river Alaw, Anglesey. He died 29 December 1835, and was buried in S. John's churchyard, Chester. Beaumaris Bay, Llwyd's best known work, was published in 1800. He also
OWEN, GERALLT LLOYD (1944 - 2014), teacher, publisher, poet Gruffudd the last Prince of Wales in the year commemorating the seven hundredth anniversary of his death. According to the critic Branwen Jarvis the poem expressed more grief than bitterness, grief at the apathy of the Welsh, and it also reflects the sense of loss which the poet had expressed in many of his commemorative poems. 'Llywelyn the man is here as well as Llywelyn the prince and leader, and to
PARRY, ROBERT WILLIAMS (1884 - 1956), poet, university lecturer remarkable poem ' Drudwy Branwen ', which embodies all the notable features of Williams Parry's work - a skilful versification, powerful imagination, and meaningful imagery. Towards the end of the period the poet's style underwent a change. He had long abandoned the verbal exuberance of ' Yr Haf ', but carefully observed the refined language which he held was the hallmark of poetry. Now he modified his
WEBB, HARRI (1920 - 1994), librarian and poet (1969). This was followed by A Crown for Branwen (1974), Rampage and Revel (1977) and Poetry and Points in 1983. Many of his poems appeared first in Poetry Wales as well as several other magazines and newspapers. His Collected Poems appeared posthumously in 1995 edited by Meic Stephens. He became well-known to the literary public of Wales in the 1970s through regular appearances on BBC Wales's Poems

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