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 4by George Borrow - 1900 - 572 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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