biography
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| (1893–1985)
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| biography:
| Playwright, poet, and Welsh nationalist, born in Cheshire, NWC England, UK. He studied English and French at Liverpool, became a lecturer in Welsh at University College, Swansea, in 1922, and in 1924 published a study on classical Welsh 18th-c poetry, A School of Welsh Augustans. He was co-founder of the Welsh Nationalist Party (later Plaid Cymru) in 1925, and became its president in 1926. Imprisoned for an act of arson (1936), he was dismissed from Swansea and made his living by journalism, teaching, and farming until his appointment in 1952 as lecturer (later senior lecturer) in Welsh at University College, Cardiff. He published many essays, plays, poems, novels, and historical and literary criticism, chiefly in Welsh. |
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