Poetry
Very little information has survived relating to Ieuan and his poetry. Ieuan composed five poems to a woman named “Anni Goch” in one of which he accuses how false women have been throughout history. Recent research has shown that Ieuan Dyfi was brought before a church court, where he admitted adultery with Anni, a married woman. This provoked Gwerful Mechain to respond with her poem “I Wragedd Eiddigeddus”.
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English and Scottish Ballads (The Poetry Bookshelf)
“A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)