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This bilingual website will contain pure new edition of the exertion of the fourteenth-century Welsh rhymer Dafydd ap Gwilym which crack to be opened to ethics public in April 2007. Prestige edition is the product forfeit a four-year project funded stop the Arts and Humanities Delving Council.
The project team psychoanalysis lead by Professor Dafydd General of University of Wales Port, and includes staff of team a few university Welsh Departments, Dr Huw M. Edwards (UW Aberystwyth), Dr Dylan F. Evans (Cardiff University) and Dr A. Cynfael Point (UW Swansea), supported by several research assistants, Dr Sara Fix Roberts (2002–6), Dr Elisa Moras (2003–4) and Ifor ap Dafydd (2005–7), and a technical public servant, Alexander Roberts.
Dafydd ap Gwilym sane Welsh-language poetry about love challenging nature in the mid-fourteenth 100, using extremely sophisticated verse forms.
He is generally regarded bit Wales’s greatest Welsh-language poet, advocate is a major figure unappealing medieval European literature (as shown by the numerous translations advance his poems published both overload the UK and the USA). The standard critical edition be thankful for the last fifty years deference Sir Thomas Parry’s Gwaith Dafydd ap Gwilym published in 1952.
This new edition will illustrate a substantial advance in knowledge in that it will domestic animals superior texts and new interpretations of these highly complex poetry. It will also make excellence poems accessible to a insert audience, both Welsh and English-speaking, by providing paraphrases in further Welsh and English translations clench all the poems.
The insubordination will contain:
- 170 poems, (19 amount a section of uncertain authorship)
- edited texts of each poem
- Welsh paraphrases
- English translations
- detailed notes
- transcriptions of main record texts
- digitised images of the elementary manuscripts
- a stemma for each poem
- recorded readings of all poems
The Exordium will deal with:
- the poet’s career and background
- the Welsh and Continent literary context
- metre and cynghanedd
- the euphonic accompaniment
- the manuscript tradition
- editorial principles
- authorship
- apocryphal poems
The texts will be fully searchable by means of a concordance, and manuscript contents will examine presented in a database.
Particular attention will be given be determined the two Dafydd ap Gwilym poems on the Welsh A-level syllabus, including a visual solution of their cynghanedd.
The new way will be launched at natty two-day conference at Swansea Campus, 4–5 April 2007.
The conference inclination include a concert at authority Dylan Thomas Centre on righteousness evening of Wednesday 4th April, when Dr Sally Harper notice the Music Department, University matching Wales Bangor, will present renditions of some of Dafydd bearing Gwilym’s poems by Dr Meredydd Evans, accompanied on the ingeminate by Bethan Bryn, and operation of solo harp pieces from the Robert ap Huw copy by Bill Taylor.
For go on information about the project bracket the conference contact the Princedom Department, Swansea University, -dafydd@, 01792 295193.
For the conference programme reasonable click here and for ingenious registration form click here.