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DAVIES, ANEIRIN TALFAN (1909 - 1980), poet, literary critic, broadcaster and publisher . Another volume edited by him was Myfi Sy'n Magu'r Baban, a collection of feature programmes (1951). In 1966 he was appointed Head of Programmes at BBC Wales, and continued to support Welsh and English-language writers. Although the Welsh language was very close to his heart, he did a great deal to bridge the gap between Wales's two languages and cultures. In 1940, together with his brother Alun, who
WYNNE, ELLIS (1670/1 - 1734), cleric, and author of an outstanding Welsh prose classic previously published (London, 1701) a translation, under the title of Rheol Buchedd Sanctaidd …, of Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living, whilst, in 1710, appeared his edition of the Welsh Book of Common Prayer. In the latter appeared his best-known Welsh hymn, that beginning ' Myfi yw'r Adgyfodiad Mawr '; four other hymns by him, together with a version of a psalm, and two carolau plygain, all in Welsh, appeared

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