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" Wild Wales," and he claims for Dafydd ap Gwilym, a contemporary of our Chaucer, the position of " the greatest poetical genius that has appeared in Europe since the revival of literature." At the present day there are no less than twenty weekly newspapers... "
Wild Wales: Its People, Language, and Scenery - Page 4
by George Borrow - 1900 - 572 pages
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 76

Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...Welshmen possess, and his admiration for the bards is something wonderful. Dafydd av Gwilym he calls " the greatest poetical genius that has appeared in Europe since the revival of literature " — praise_that we must venture to submit is absurdly exaggerated, and is certainly more than Welshmen...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 151

Electronic journals - 1926 - 538 pages
...infinitely more difficult, Welsh poetry in any of the four-and-twenty measures, and was well-versed in the compositions of various of the old Welsh bards,...appeared in Europe since the revival of literature. In ' Lavengro ' Borrow says that he had " translated the songs of Ab Gwilym, some ten thousand lines,...
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Bernard Quaritch

Bernard Quaritch (Firm) - Antiquarian booksellers - 1874 - 904 pages
...Saesoncg, tan Olygiad CTNDBELW, 12mo. cloth, 10« Gd Liverpool, nd " Dafydd nb Gwilym, whom since the time I first became acquainted with his works, I have always...as the greatest poetical genius that has appeared iu Europe since the revival of literature."— George Borrow, in " Wild Waifs." " The last and greatest...
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The Cambrian, Volumes 14-15

Welsh - 1894 - 832 pages
...forgotten, of an admirable translation of "Y Bardd Cwsg, thus writes of him, — "Dafydd ab Gwilym was the greatest poetical genius that has appeared in Europe since the revival of literature." This is тегу high praise, much too high, in my humble judgment, although it should be borne in...
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The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian

Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - Wales - 1905 - 596 pages
...Nid af i ddadleu dros gyvvirdeb llythrenol datganiad George Borrow, "Dafydd ap Gwilym, since the time I first became acquainted with his works, I have always...appeared in Europe since the revival of literature," — oblegid ofnaf mai nid gwir ragoriaethau Dafydd a ennillodd iddo gamoliaeth Borrow. Ond yr wyf heb...
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My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, Volume 1

Alfred Russel Wallace - History - 1905 - 508 pages
..." Wild Wales," and he claims for Dafydd ap Gwilym, a contemporary of our Chaucer, the position of " the greatest poetical genius that has appeared in Europe since the revival of literature." At the present day there are no less than twenty weekly newspapers and about the same number of monthly...
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My Life; a Record of Events and Opinions, Volume 1

Alfred Russel Wallace - Biologists --biography - 1905 - 522 pages
..." Wild Wales," and he claims for Dafydd ap Gwilym, a contemporary of our Chaucer, the position of " the greatest poetical genius that has appeared in Europe since the revival of literature." At the present day there are no less than twenty weekly newspapers and about the same number of monthly...
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My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, Volume 1

Alfred Russel Wallace - Natural selection - 1905 - 512 pages
..." Wild Wales," and he claims for Dafydd ap Gwilym, a contemporary of our Chaucer, the position of " the greatest poetical genius that has appeared in Europe since the revival of literature." At the present day there are no less than twenty weekly newspapers and about the same number of monthly...
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My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, Volume 1

Alfred Russel Wallace - History - 1905 - 542 pages
..." Wild Wales," and he claims for Dafydd ap Gwilym, a contemporary of our Chaucer, the position of " the greatest poetical genius that has appeared in Europe since the revival of literature." At the present day there are no less than twenty weekly newspapers and about the same number of monthly...
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The Library, Volume 10

Sir John Young Walker MacAlister, Alfred William Pollard, Ronald Brunlees McKerrow, Sir Frank Chalton Francis - Bibliography - 1909 - 506 pages
...be read for his own sake. Probably few people will agree with Borrow's extravagant estimate of him as ' the greatest poetical genius that has appeared in Europe since the revival of literature ' ; but he is nevertheless a great poet and a real addition to our literary acquaintance. Perhaps,...
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