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Waldo Williams's poetry shows many influences, ranging from William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman to Welsh hymns and the strict alliterative metres of traditional Welsh poetry, known as cynghanedd. He was within the Welsh tradition of the bardd gwlad , poets who served a locality by recording its life and people in verse.
George Leslie Norris (21 May 1921 – 6 April 2006), was a prize-winning Welsh poet and short story writer. He taught at academic institutions in Britain and the United States, including Brigham Young University. Norris is considered one of the most important Welsh writers of the post-war period, and his literary publications have won many prizes.
Robert Williams was a Welsh poet who wrote most of his poems about agriculture and nature. Roberts was born at Pandy Isaf, Tre Rhiwedog, Bala, but little else is known about his life. [1] He learned bardic conventions from the well-known teacher Rolant Huw (1714-1802), [2] and himself taught the better known Ioan Tegid (John Jones, 1792-1852 ...
Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) [1] was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood.
Professor David Gwyn Williams, usually known simply as Gwyn Williams (24 August 1904 – 24 December 1990) [1] was a Welsh poet, novelist, translator and academic. [2]Born in Port Talbot, he was educated at the University College of Wales and Jesus College, Oxford. [3]
Robert Parry (1540–1612) was a Welsh poet, romancier and translator who published the romance Moderatus and a collection of verse entitled Sinetes Passions, which may have influenced Shakespeare's sonnets.
David James Jones (18 May 1899 – 24 December 1968), commonly known by his bardic name Gwenallt, was a Welsh poet, critic, and scholar, and one of the most important figures of 20th-century Welsh-language literature. [1] He created his bardic name by transposing Alltwen, the name of the village across the river from his birthplace.
Poets of Welsh nationality, writing in Welsh or English language. See also Category:Welsh-language poets for poets of any nationality writing in the Welsh language. Biography portal; Poetry portal; Wales portal