- The
cywydd (IPA: [ˈkəwɨ̞ð];
plural cywyddau) is one of the most
important metrical forms in
traditional Welsh poetry (cerdd dafod).
There are a variety...
-
prophesies are
known to have
inspired a
number of
vaticinatory poems (
Cywyddau Brud), such as
those found in
Early Vaticination in
Welsh (1937). Raymond...
- been
praised by
literary historians as one of the very
finest of
Welsh cywyddau, and was
included in The
Oxford Book of
Welsh Verse. Once-majestic birch...
-
advertised in the
cheap almanacs that were
widely available. The
englynion and
cywyddau composed for
these events "owe more to the
beery atmosphere at
which they...
- he
swears he will
wander no more. "The Wave" is one of a
group of
three cywyddau by
Gruffudd Gryg
relating to his
pilgrimage by sea to the
shrine of St...
-
Dafydd ap
Ieuan ab Owen was a 16th-century
Welsh poet. He
wrote cywyddau and englynion, some of
which ****ociate him with the
Harlech area. A
number of...
- Glamorgan,
south Wales. Only four of his
compositions survive, all of them
cywyddau. He was
either the
brother or
father of
Gwilym Tew and the
father of the...
-
bards of Glamorganshire, and two
quite large collections of his
awdlau and
cywyddau are
known to survive. They
include a
number of
works written in praise...
- was a 16th-century
Welsh poet. He is
known to have
written a
number of
cywyddau in
praise of St
Mordeyrn (as ****ociated with Nantglyn), St Dyfnog, and...
- is his most
famous work, and has been
called one of the
finest of all
cywyddau and one of the
greatest of all Welsh-language love-poems,
comparable with...
