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Welsh literature

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
literary writings in the Welsh language. The earliest Welsh literature is preserved in about half a dozen manuscripts written with one exception after the 12th cent. However, the literature was highly developed well before the Norman Conquest. Of early extant works the most important, the so-called Four Ancient Books of Wales, are The Book of Aneurin , The Book of Taliesin , The Black Book of Caemarthen , and The Red Book of Hergest. Much of the poetry in these manuscripts is credited to four late 6th-century bards— Aneurin , Taliesin , Myrddin (the Merlin of Arthurian romance), and Llywarch Hen—and most of the anonymous poetry is marked by style and subject as belonging to their various schools. Early Welsh poetry is epic, romantic, and historical. Songs in praise of heroes (many pre-Christian and mythological) and elegiac poems of desolation and longing frequently appear. They are marked by a rich, musical style, displaying the verbal felicity of a highly developed art. Among early…
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Full text Article Welsh literature

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
The prose and poetry of Wales, written predominantly in Welsh but also, more recently, in English. Characteristic of Welsh poetry is the bardic system. In the 18th century the eisteddfod (literary festival) movement brought a revival of classical forms. Ancient literature The chief remains of early…
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Full text Article Welsh literature

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
literary writings in the Welsh language. The earliest Welsh literature is preserved in about half a dozen manuscripts written with one exception after the 12th cent. However, the literature was highly developed well before the Norman Conquest. Of early extant works the most important, the so-called…
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Full text Article Welsh Literature: Introduction

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The first of the Vaughans of Hergest ( Herefordshire ) was Thomas ap Rhosier Fychan, son of Gwladys, daughter of Dafydd Gam and her first husband, Rhosier Fychan of Bretwardine (Herefordshire). Roger Vaughan ( see Vaughan family (Tretower) ) was Thomas’s brother and William Herbert , Earl of…
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Full text Article Jones, Thomas Gwynn

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Welsh poet. He won the National Eisteddfod chair at Bangor in 1902 with ‘Ymadawiad Arthur’ (‘The Passing of Arthur’), a poem which, for its application of a modern creative mind to traditional strict metre, heralded a new era in Welsh literature, and won again in 1909 with ‘Gwlad y Bryniau’ (‘The…
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Full text Article Garlick, Raymond (1926–2011)

From The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry
Born in London and educated at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He later taught English at Pembroke Dock and at Blaenau Ffestiniog. He was the founder of Dock Leaves and edited the magazine (later The Anglo-Welsh Review ) from 1949 to 1961, when he left Wales to teach at an…
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Full text Article Prydwen

From Encyclopedia of Mythological Objects
Variations: Pridwen , Priwen , Pryd-wen In Welsh Arthurian lore, Prydwen ( Fair Face / Fair Form /[ of ] White Aspect ) is the ship of King Arthur; however, in later Arthurian lore, Sir Thomas Malory (1415–1471) gives “Prydwen” as the name of his shield. The later translation of the name suggests a…
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Full text Article Mabinogion

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Collection of 11 medieval Welsh tales based on mythology, folklore, and heroic legends. The tales have multiple authors and are versions of stories told and retold through the centuries. Among the finest are four stories known as “The Four Branches of the Mabinogi,” written in the late 11th century. …
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Full text Article Mathias, Roland (1915–2000)

From The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry
Born at Talybont-on-Usk, Breconshire, and educated at British military schools in Germany, where his father was an army chaplain, and at Jesus College, Oxford. After teaching history at schools in England, he returned to Wales to become headmaster of Pembroke Dock Grammar School in 1948, but later…
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Constituting a magnificent peninsula west of Fishguard , the community contains the villages of Granston, Llangloffan, Llanwnda and St Nicholas. There are Neolithic burial chambers at Llanwnda and St Nicholas, a Bronze Age standing stone at St Nicholas and two Iron Age hill-forts above Pwll Deri. …
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