Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English

by Gwyn Jones (Editor)

An anthology of Welsh poetry in translation and in English, from the sixth-century bard, Taliesin, to Dylan Thomas, includes examples of characteristic Welsh metrical forms and excerpts from classic long works

Genres: Poetry

352 pages, Hardcover

First published April 28, 1977

About the author

Son of a miner, Gwyn Jones (1907-1999) became a schoolteacher, then lecturer, then Professor of English from 1940. He was a novelist and short-story writer, translator of The Mabinogion and Icelandic sagas, founder and editor of The Welsh Review. He became Chairman of the Welsh Arts Council and was awarded the CBE (1965), the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Falcon (1963), and the Commander's Cross (1987) of Iceland.