LEWIS MENAI
(
fl.
in the
second half of the 16th cent.
),
poet
.
He graduated as a
disgybl pencerddaidd
at the
Caerwys eisteddfod
of
1568
. His patrons included the families of
Bodeon
,
Bodfel
,
Clenennau
,
Llwydiarth
,
Myfyrian
,
Mysoglen
,
Penrhyn
,
Plas Newydd
, and
Ystumcegid
. Love poems and
englynion
are also among his compositions. There is a collection of his poems in
Llanst. MS. 122 (236-92)
.
Bibliography:
-
Peniarth Manuscript in the National Library of
Wales
121 (215);
-
N.L.W.
Swansea Manuscript
1 (216, 220, 248);
-
National Library of Wales
Manuscripts
356 (13), 6499 (307).
Author:
Professor David James Bowen, M.A., Aberystwyth
