Celtic

Goronwy Owen

1723–1769


Goronwy Owen was a Welsh poet and clergyman, born in Anglesey, who restored the strict metres to eighteenth-century Welsh verse. He emigrated to Virginia in 1757 and died there.

An extract from his ode on the Day of Judgment is given in English verse by Alfred Perceval Graves in A Celtic Psaltery (1917).

  1. From "The Last Judgment"
  2. The Invitation
  3. The Pedigree of the Muse
  4. The Harp
  5. Ellen

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