First published in 1764, Evans’s collection offered English readers prose translations of poems by the court bards of the Welsh princes, with learned notes on names, words and history and the Welsh originals printed alongside. This edition adds a biographical sketch of Evans, selections from his own verse and letters, and an essay on the feudal system.
A key book of the eighteenth-century Celtic revival, which fed the interest in Welsh poetry shared by Gray and others. Download the free EPUB.