ROBERT ap HARRY (c. 1580), poet

Name: Robert ap Harry
Gender: Male
Occupation: poet
Area of activity: Poetry
Author: Nansi Ceridwen Jones

Five of his poems are preserved in manuscript, viz. a cywydd to pride, an elegy to Siôn Eutyn, a laudatory cywydd on John Salusbury of Lleweni, a poem to the Sacrament, and an englyn. There is also one other poem attributed to him in Cardiff MS. 6 (123), but in Cardiff MS. 63 (278) it is attributed to Siôn Phylip.

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Published date: 1959

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