Dafydd Nanmor (
fl.
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1450 – 1490) was a
Welsh language
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poet born at
Nanmor (or Nantmor), in
Gwynedd
Gwynedd () is a county in the north-west of Wales. It borders Anglesey across the Menai Strait to the north, Conwy, Denbighshire, and Powys to the east, Ceredigion over the Dyfi estuary to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west. The ci ...
, north-west
Wales
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. He is one of the most significant poets of this period.
It is said that he was exiled to south Wales for overstepping the mark in his poetry (he sang a poem to a married local woman) and spent the rest of his life outside Gwynedd. His work was seen to have particular significance by the twentieth-century critic
Saunders Lewis
Saunders Lewis (born John Saunders Lewis; 15 October 1893 – 1 September 1985) was a Welsh politician, poet, dramatist, Medievalist, and literary critic. Born into a Welsh-speaking ministerial family in Greater Liverpool, Lewis studied in a p ...
. Lewis saw him a poet of philosophy who praised the ideal ruler as he praised his patrons who saw that within the Welsh tradition all who had privilege and power also had responsibilities towards family, community and nation.
It is believed that
Rhys Nanmor was a bardic student of his.
See also
*
Rhys Goch Eryri, a Welsh poet who was a contemporary of Dafydd Nanmor and was acquainted with him
Bibliography
*Thomas Roberts and
Ifor Williams
Sir Ifor Williams, (16 April 1881 – 4 November 1965) was a Welsh scholar who laid the foundations for the academic study of Old Welsh, particularly early Welsh poetry.
Early life and education
Ifor Williams was born at Pendinas, Tregarth nea ...
, ''The Poetical Works of Dafydd Nanmor'' (Cardiff, 1923)
External links
Biography of Dafydd Nanmor
Welsh-language poets
People from Beddgelert
15th-century Welsh poets
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