EVANS, HENRY ('Harri Evan William'; fl. end of 17th century), poet and translator

A native of Bedwellty, Monmouth. In 1771 Thomas Williams (1697 - 1778) of Mynydd-bach, Carmarthenshire, published a volume of verse translated by Henry Evans from the English, entitled Cynghorion Tad i'w Fab, which included a letter from Stephen Hughes, dated 12 March 1682/3, stating that he had received the book for publication from the author, who thus must have been a contemporary of Stephen Hughes's. An original poetical work entitled Ymddiddan rhwng Hen Wr Dall a'r Angau was published in 1764; other editions appeared in 1781 and in 1807. On the title-page of the last edition the author is named as 'Harri Evan William o'r Bedwellty, sir Fynwy.'

Author

• Walter Thomas Morgan, (1912 - 1990)

Sources

• Hanes llenyddiaeth Gymreig o 1651 O.C. hyd 1850 (1893), 164-6
• Edward Jones, Rhestr gyda nodiadau byrion, o Enwogion Cymreig o 1700 i 1900 (1908)
• W. Rowlands, Cambrian Bibliography (Llanidloes 1869), 265, 606

Works

• Henry Evans, Can dduwiol, yn dangos yr union a'r unig ffordd i'r nefoedd, trwy anorchfygol rinwedd gwaed yr Oen (Aberhonddu 1772)
• Henry Evans, Ymddiddan rhwng hen wr dall a'r angeu (Caerfyrddin 1770)

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20733144

Published date: 1959

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