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The Poets of the Nobility Series

Volumes

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Gwaith Gruffudd Llwyd a’r Llygliwiaid Eraill

Seventeen poems by Gruffudd Llwyd are edited in this volume, together with a love cywydd which is believed to be by him. Gruffudd Llwyd was esteemed by his contemporaries as a poet of love and religious poetry. 

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Gwaith Syr Dafydd Trefor

This volume contains the complete bardic works of ‘Sir’ Dafydd Trefor, a cleric-poet and the rector of Llaneugrad and Llanallgo on Anglesey, who was born c. 1460 and died of the Black Death c. 1528.

Many of his poems are requests for gifts, namely a bow, a mare, a rosary and a harp.

He also composed songs of praise and elegies, and religious songs (albeit not as many as one might expect), among them a delightful song of praise to St Dwynwen, patron saint of Welsh lovers.