Welsh writers who continue to touch a chord with readers worldwide.
Dylan Thomas
Rabble-rousing writer who drank too much, died too young, and wrote lyrical, complex poems. Most over-used quote:
Better to murmur:
Rabble-rousing writer who drank too much, died too young, and wrote lyrical, complex poems. Most over-used quote:
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Better to murmur:
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age.
Drives my green age.
R S Thomas
High-minded poet and clergyman, who wrote about Wales and God. Was nominated for the Nobel Prize but died recently without winning it. Born to an English-speaking family, he taught himself Welsh but could never compose poems in it. Obscure quote:
High-minded poet and clergyman, who wrote about Wales and God. Was nominated for the Nobel Prize but died recently without winning it. Born to an English-speaking family, he taught himself Welsh but could never compose poems in it. Obscure quote:
More typical quote:
We were a people bred on legends,
Warming our hands at the red past.
Warming our hands at the red past.
Aneirin
Bard of the ancient Britons, who commemorated the great battles of the Gododdin tribe. Says sternly:
Bard of the ancient Britons, who commemorated the great battles of the Gododdin tribe. Says sternly:
When Caradog rushed into battle
Like a wild boar, he cut down three chiefs;
Bull of the warband, scythe in the battle,
His hand gave meat to the wolves.
Like a wild boar, he cut down three chiefs;
Bull of the warband, scythe in the battle,
His hand gave meat to the wolves.