Evan Rees (Dyfed)
Evan Rees (1 January 1850 – 19 March 1923),[1] known by the bardic name Dyfed, was a Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
Life
He was born at Puncheston, Pembrokeshire, the son of James and Eunice Rees; they moved to Aberdare when he was a child and he began working in the local colliery at the age of only eight-years of age. Having moved to Cardiff, he became a Calvinistic Methodist minister at the age of 23 and gained his first National Eisteddfod victory in 1881.
In 1893, Dyfed won the Bardic Chair and the $500 prize money offered for a 2,000 line awdl on the set subject Iesu o Nazareth ("Jesus of Nazareth") at the Eisteddfod held as part of the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[2] Rev. Reese went on to become the Archdruid of the Gorsedd Cymru and to announce the posthumous victory of Hedd Wyn at the infamous 1917 "Eisteddfod of the Black Chair" in Birkenhead.
Works
- Caniadau Dyfedfab (c. 1875) OCLC 502503798
- Gwlad yr Addewid a Iesu o Nazareth (1900) OCLC 21776293
- Gwaith Barddonol Dyfed (1903–1907) OCLC 55577536
- Oriau gydag Islwyn (1901) OCLC 819401047
- Emynau Dyfed (1924, posthumous) OCLC 39741895
References
- ^ Rhys, James Ednyfed (1959). "Rees, Evan (Dyfed; 1850 - 1923), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and archdruid of Wales". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ Hywel Teifi Edwards (2016), The Eiseddfod, University of Wales Press. Page 31.
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