From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Welsh-language poet 1944?2014
Gerallt Lloyd Owen
(6 November 1944 ? 15 July 2014) was a Welsh-language poet who lived in
Llandwrog
.
[1]
He is considered to be one of Wales's leading "strict-metre" poets.
[2]
Works
[
edit
]
Owen began as a "political poet" in the 1960s, often using medieval forms or imagery for purposes of promoting
Welsh nationalism
. His political works at times satirized the failings of the Welsh people, or Welsh history, rather than simply praising them.
[3]
The 1982
Bardic Chair
at the
National Eisteddfod of Wales
was awarded to Owen for his
awdl
Cilmeri
, which
Hywel Teifi Edwards
has called the only 20th-century
awdl,
that matches
T. Gwynn Jones
' 1902 masterpiece
Ymadawiad Arthur
("The Passing of Arthur"). Owen's
Cilmeri
reimagines the death of Prince
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd
of the Royal
House of Gwynedd
in battle near
the village of the same name
on 11 December 1282, while leading a doomed uprising against the occupation of Wales by King
Edward I of England
. Owen's poem depicts the Prince as a
tragic hero
and invests his fall with an anguish unmatched since
Gruffudd ab yr Ynad Coch
wrote his famous lament for the Prince immediately following his death. Owen also, according to Edwards, encapsulates in the Prince's death the
Welsh people
's continuing "battle for national survival."
[4]
One of his earlier works,
Afon
, is more about childhood. Part of it is quoted in a document on early children's education in Wales.
[5]
Death
[
edit
]
Owen died on 15 July 2014 in hospital at the age of 69.
[6]
Awards
[
edit
]
References
[
edit
]
External links
[
edit
]
|
---|
International
| |
---|
National
| |
---|
Artists
| |
---|
Other
| |
---|