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NLW MS 16799xxviiiD.
Title
The Home of Taliessin,
Date(s)
- [c. 1823] / (Creation)
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1 f. ; 230 x 190 mm.
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Ifan Kyrle Fletcher; London; Purchase; September 1949
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A holograph copy, [c. 1823] (watermark 1821), of the first three verses, and accompanying descriptive passage, of the poem 'The Home of Taliessin' by Alaric A. Watts.
The poem was first published in Alaric A. Watts, Poetical Sketches... and Other Poems, 3rd edn with additional poems (London, 1824), pp. 155-157, where it comprised six verses; it was collected in Alaric A. Watts, Lyrics of the Heart: With Other Poems (London, 1851), pp. 275-276, as five verses (the fourth having been omitted). The poem was composed in 1819 (see Watts (1824), p. 157).
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English.
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Original title.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 16799xxviiiD.
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vtls004465754
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- Taliesin. (Subject)
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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales