Ardal dynodi
Cod cyfeirnod
Teitl
Dyddiad(au)
- 1930-1951. (Creation)
Lefel y disgrifiad
Ffeil
Maint a chyfrwng
Ardal cyd-destun
Enw'r crëwr
Hanes bywgraffyddol
Idris Davies (1905-1953), poet and schoolteacher, was born in a Welsh-speaking household and community in Rhymney, Monmouthshire, but spent much of his life living and working in London. It was, however, the industrial landscape of the South Wales valleys which was to have the greatest influence on his work, in which Davies frequently denounces the grimness and desolation of the surroundings while also reflecting the idealism and protest of its people during a time of great economic, social and religious change. His first volume of poetry, Gwalia Deserta (London, 1938), written at Rhymney, took as its theme the South Wales valleys during the Depression years of the 1930s. The Angry Summer, written at Meesden in Hertfordshire and published in 1943, is considered to be Davies's finest poem. Tonypandy and Other Poems (London, 1945) was completed while Davies was teaching in Treherbert in the Rhondda valley. In 1947 Davies returned as schoolmaster to his native Rhynmney, where he continued to write, broadcast and lecture. Selected Poems (London, 1953), the last volume to be produced during Davies's lifetime, was published less than a month before the poet's death in April 1953. Some of Davies's later material appeared posthumously in The Collected Poems of Idris Davies (Llandysul, 1972).
Hanes archifol
Ffynhonnell
Ardal cynnwys a strwythur
Natur a chynnwys
Some two hundred poems, mostly fair copies, very few in more than one version, two in Welsh, only one noted in his published collections. A relatively small number are dated; these dates run from 1930 to 1951. The poems all originally on loose sheets of paper are bound in a very rough chronological order. 287 Ff. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 1.
Gwerthuso, dinistrio ac amserlennu
Croniadau
System o drefniant
Ardal amodau mynediad a defnydd
Amodau rheoli mynediad
Amodau rheoli atgynhyrchu
Iaith y deunydd
Sgript o ddeunydd
Nodiadau iaith a sgript
Cyflwr ac anghenion technegol
Cymhorthion chwilio
Ardal deunyddiau perthynol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad y gwreiddiol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad copïau
Unedau o ddisgrifiad cysylltiedig
Ardal nodiadau
Nodiadau
Preferred citation: NLW MS 20770E.