Work
He was mostly remarkable as an emigre bard, writing with hiraeth (longing) for his native Anglesey.
He learnt much of his poetic craft from Lewis Morris, a fellow Anglesey man who, with his brothers and others, was a key figure in the Welsh literary circle referred to by Saunders Lewis as a "school of Welsh Augustans".
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