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But "The Wave" is also a love poem in which the beloved, unusually for a medieval poem, is seen as potentially inconstant. [10] She is described in other poems by Gruffudd as having eyes the colour of a ripe berry or a cow, coral and gold cheeks, a neck whiter than a swan or a seagull, and a fine mouth which delivers wise words. [ 12 ]
The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse (1962), edited by Thomas Parry, is an anthology of Welsh-language poetry stretching from Aneirin in the 6th century to Bobi Jones in the 20th. No translations of the poems are provided, but the introduction and notes are in English.
The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English is a 1977 poetry anthology edited by the author and academic Gwyn Jones. [1] It covers both Welsh language poetry in English translation and poetry written in English by Welsh poets (often called Anglo-Welsh poetry ).
The poem survives in 26 manuscripts. Among the key early manuscripts are Peniarth 182 (written by Sir Huw Pennant of Flintshire around 1514); Hafod 26, also known as Cardiff 4.330 (written by Thomas Wiliems around 1574); Llansteffan 120 (written by Jaspar Gryffyth between about 1597 and 1607); Cwrtmawr 5 (probably written by Ieuan or Ifan Tudur Owen of Dugoed, Mawddwy, early 17th century); and ...
"Lament for Lleucu Llwyd" (Welsh: Marwnad Lleucu Llwyd) is a Middle Welsh poem by the 14th-century bard Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen in the form of a cywydd.It is his most famous work, and has been called one of the finest of all cywyddau [1] and one of the greatest of all Welsh-language love-poems, [2] comparable with the best poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym. [3]
The poem in BL Add. MS 14997, a manuscript dating from c. 1500. The academic critic Huw Meirion Edwards considered that "The Seagull"’s imagery goes far beyond anything that had come before it in Welsh poetry, [7] and Anthony Conran wrote that "pictorially it is superb…[it] has the visual completeness, brilliance and unity of a medieval illumination, a picture from a book of hours". [8]
An Introduction to Welsh Poetry from the Beginnings to the Sixteenth Century. London: Faber and Faber. p. 82. Abridged translation. Revised in his Welsh Poems: Sixth Century to 1600. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1974 [1973]. pp. 36– 37. ISBN 978-0-520-02603-2. Complete translation. Further revised in his To Look for a Word.
Pages in category "Poems in Welsh" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Cad Goddeu; Canu Heledd;