Feb 26 2025 35 mins 7
Dyma ni’n dathlu recordio trigeinfed bennod y podlediad trwy drafod un o glasuron Cymraeg y cyfnod modern cynnar, Gweledigaethau’r Bardd Cwsg, llyfr a gyhoeddwyd gan Ellis Wynne yn 1703. Er bod y gwaith rhyfeddol hwn ar un wedd yn drosiad o lyfrau Saesneg a oedd yn eu tro yn gyfieithiadau o destun Sbaeneg, mae’n gyfansoddiad gwreiddiol iawn gan i’r awdur fynd ati i Gymreigio’i ddeunydd yn drylwyr o ran cynnwys a chyd-destun yn ogystal â’r iaith.
Eglwyswr a brenhinwr rhonc oedd Ellis Wynne, ond esgorodd ei geidwadaeth wleidyddiaeth a chrefyddol ar greadigaeth artistig a ymestynnodd ffiniau rhyddiaith Gymraeg gyda’i arddull fyrlymus a’i ddelweddau cofiadwy. Ac er bod y llyfr yn y pendraw yn waith moesol sy’n trafod pechod, mae’n gwneud hynny mewn modd sy’n rhyfeddol o ffraeth a doniol.
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‘On one fair afternoon during a warm long golden summer’: The Visions of the Sleeping Bard (1)
Here we celebrate the podcast’s sixtieth episode by discussing one of the Welsh classics of the early modern period, Gweledigaethau’r Bardd Cwsg (‘The Visions of the Sleeping Bard’), a book published by Ellis Wynne in 1703. Although this amazing work is in a kind of adaptation of English books which were in turn translations of a Spanish text, it’s a very original creation, seeing as the author made his material Welsh in content and context as well as language.
Ellis Wynne was an ardent Anglican and a royalist, but his religious and political conservatism generated an artistic creation which extended the boundaries of Welsh prose with its vivacious style and memorable imagery. And although this book is in the end a moral work discussing sin, it does that in a way which is incredibly witty and funny.
Cyflwynwyd gan: Yr Athro Jerry Hunter a'r Athro Richard Wyn Jones
Cynhyrchwyd gan: Richard Martin
Cerddoriaeth: 'Might Have Done' gan The Molenes
Darllen Pellach/Further Reading:
- Patrick J. Donovan a Gwyn Thomas (goln.) Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsg: y rhan Gyntaf (1998).
- Gwyn Thomas, Y Bardd Cwsg a’i gefndir (1971).
- Gwyn Thomas, Ellis Wynne (1984).
Eglwyswr a brenhinwr rhonc oedd Ellis Wynne, ond esgorodd ei geidwadaeth wleidyddiaeth a chrefyddol ar greadigaeth artistig a ymestynnodd ffiniau rhyddiaith Gymraeg gyda’i arddull fyrlymus a’i ddelweddau cofiadwy. Ac er bod y llyfr yn y pendraw yn waith moesol sy’n trafod pechod, mae’n gwneud hynny mewn modd sy’n rhyfeddol o ffraeth a doniol.
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‘On one fair afternoon during a warm long golden summer’: The Visions of the Sleeping Bard (1)
Here we celebrate the podcast’s sixtieth episode by discussing one of the Welsh classics of the early modern period, Gweledigaethau’r Bardd Cwsg (‘The Visions of the Sleeping Bard’), a book published by Ellis Wynne in 1703. Although this amazing work is in a kind of adaptation of English books which were in turn translations of a Spanish text, it’s a very original creation, seeing as the author made his material Welsh in content and context as well as language.
Ellis Wynne was an ardent Anglican and a royalist, but his religious and political conservatism generated an artistic creation which extended the boundaries of Welsh prose with its vivacious style and memorable imagery. And although this book is in the end a moral work discussing sin, it does that in a way which is incredibly witty and funny.
Cyflwynwyd gan: Yr Athro Jerry Hunter a'r Athro Richard Wyn Jones
Cynhyrchwyd gan: Richard Martin
Cerddoriaeth: 'Might Have Done' gan The Molenes
Darllen Pellach/Further Reading:
- Patrick J. Donovan a Gwyn Thomas (goln.) Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsg: y rhan Gyntaf (1998).
- Gwyn Thomas, Y Bardd Cwsg a’i gefndir (1971).
- Gwyn Thomas, Ellis Wynne (1984).
