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No works by Welsh poets prior to the 6th century have survived. Tradition records: Maelgwyn of Llandaff (c. 450) – said, according to one source, to have written of Joseph of Arimathea's burial at Glastonbury. [1] However, in the mid-5th century he would have spoken Brythonic, not Welsh, and as a monk would probably have written in Latin. His ...
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
William Saunders (1806–1851), Welsh poet in Welsh; Richard Savage (c. 1697–1743), English poet; Leslie Scalapino (1944–2010), US poet, writer and playwright; Maurice Scève (c. 1500–1564), French poet; Hermann Georg Scheffauer (1876–1927), US poet, architect and fiction writer; Georges Schehadé (1905–1989), Lebanese playwright and ...
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.
J. Angharad James (poet) Christine James; Daniel James (Gwyrosydd) John Jenkins (Gwili) John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) Alice Gray Jones; D. Gwenallt Jones
Hedd Wyn (born Ellis Humphrey Evans, 13 January 1887 – 31 July 1917) was a Welsh-language poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I. He was posthumously awarded the bard's chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod .
In Welsh culture, an eisteddfod [a] is an institution and festival with several ranked competitions, including in poetry and music. [2]: xvi The term eisteddfod, which is formed from the Welsh morphemes: eistedd, meaning 'sit', and fod, meaning 'be', [3] means, according to Hywel Teifi Edwards, "sitting-together."
This list of Welsh writers is an incomplete alphabetical list of writers from Wales. It includes writers in all literary genres, writing in English, Welsh, Latin, or any other language, who have a Wikipedia page. Description as a writer precedes other occupations. It is a subsidiary to the List of Welsh people.