Eben Fardd was regarded in his day as one of Wales 's foremost poets, and it is fair to say that he was endowed with more of the true poetic sensibility than was any other of the 19th century eisteddfodic bards. He adjudicated often, the most notable occasion being at Aberffraw in 1849 , when he was for awarding the prize to Emrys 's ode on ‘ Y Greadigaeth ,’ but was overruled by his two fellow-adjudicators in favour of Nicander . In addition to his well known eisteddfodic poems he wrote a large body of occasional verse, and a collection of hymns by him appeared under the title Hymnau ( Denbigh , 1862 ). He prepared an appendix of hymns for the 1856 edition of Y Salmydd Cymreig , edited by Roger Edwards . His contributions to the periodicals of the time were extensive. The ode ‘ Dinystr Jerusalem ’ represents the highest achievement of descriptive classicism, while the new standards of the romantic movement appear in the lyrical passages in the ode ‘ Y Flwyddyn ,’ and in the Miltonic style of the poem in the free metres ‘ Yr Atgyfodiad .’ Eben Fardd was indeed the focus of much of the literary activity of the first half of the 19th century. His collected works were published under the title Gweithiau Barddonol Eben Fardd (in 1873 as it is supposed), edited by Howell Roberts and William Jones . His antiquarian interest is evinced in the volume entitled Cyff Beuno ( 1863 ), dealing with the history and tradition of the parish of Clynnog .