Wynne, Ellis, 1671-1734 / 2008-07-11 00:00:00

EBOOK, VISIONS OF THE SLEEPING BARD ***


Transcribed from the 1897 Welsh National Press Company edition by David
Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk


THE VISIONS OF THE SLEEPING BARD
BEING
ELLIS WYNNE'S
"Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc"
Translated by Robert Gwyneddon Davies


Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Author's Life
The Text
A Brief Summary
Vision of The World
The Vision of Death
The Vision Of Hell
The Visions of the Sleeping Bard

PREFACE


At the National Eisteddfod of 1893, a prize was offered by Mr. Lascelles
Carr, of the Western Mail, for the best translation of Ellis Wynne's
Vision of Hell. The Adjudicators (Dean Howell and the Rev. G. Hartwell
Jones, M.A.), awarded the prize for the translation which is comprised in
the present volume. The remaining Visions were subsequently rendered
into English, and the complete work is now published in the hope that it
may prove useful to those readers, who, being unacquainted with the Welsh
language, yet desire to obtain some knowledge of its literature.
My best thanks are due to the Rev.
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