DAFYDD WILIAM PYRS (or PRYS)
(
fl.
c.
1660
),
poet
;
a native, it is said, of
Cynwyd, Mer.
No details regarding his life are known, but at least two of his poems in free metres remain. One is entitled ‘
Hanes yr hen ŵr o'r coed
,’ and the other, in the form of a dialogue between two sisters, has alternate stanzas by
Mathew
Owen
of
Llangar
(q.v.)
and himself. [Avoid confusing him with
Dafydd Emlyn
(
Dafydd William Prys
),
fl.
1603-1622
, q.v.]
Bibliography:
-
Cwrtmawr Manuscript in the National Library of
Wales
110 (177);
-
Peniarth Manuscript in the National Library of
Wales
239 (306);
-
National Library of Wales
Manuscripts
645 (1), 653 (69), 5284 (60);
-
David Jones
,
Egluryn Rhyfedd
, Llanrwst, 1897
,
1750
, 3;
-
Blodeu-Gerdd Cymry
, 1759
,
1779
, 207;
-
Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig, 1651–1850
.
[1893?]
, 64;
-
Y Brython
,
1861
, iv, 328;
-
Edward Davies
,
Traethawd ar Enwogion Swydd Feirion, hen a
diweddar, yn gelfyddydwyr, beirdd, gwyddonwyr,
pregethwyr
, Caernarfon, 1870
,
1870
, 96;
-
Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol o Enwogion
Cymru
, 1, 96.
Author:
Miss Ray Looker, (Mrs Ray Morgan), Cardiff / Rhymni
