Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards
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In 1764 the Rev. Evan Evans, who wrote in Welsh under the name Ieuan Prydydd Hir, published a small selection of early Welsh bardic poems in English, with notes on the historical passages and a short account of the men and places the bards mention. This is a reprint of Dodsley's edition, issued at Llanidloes.
Evans dedicates it to Sir Roger Mostyn and, in his preface, names Taliesin, Llywarch Hen, Aneurin and Myrddin as poets of about the year 560. He argues that the Welsh remains deserve notice alongside Macpherson's Ossian.
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- Author
- Evan Evans
- Reading time
- About 5 hours
- Pages
- 168
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Classical Poetry
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