Celtic

W. J. Gruffydd

1881–1954


William John Gruffydd was a Welsh poet, scholar and editor, Professor of Welsh at Cardiff, and a leading figure among the "New Poets" of the early twentieth century.

His ballad of the old bachelor of Ty'n y Mynydd is given in English verse by Alfred Perceval Graves in A Celtic Psaltery (1917).

  1. The Ballad of the Old Bachelor of Ty'n y Mynydd

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