Wales

Nancy Lee was born in Cardiff, Wales, to parents of Chinese and Indian descent and grew up in Peterborough, England, and Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the author of the poetry collection What Hurts Going...

David Jones was a poet and graphic artist. He is best known for his long narrative poems In Parenthesis (1937) and The Anathemata (1952), and for his engravings and paintings, which have won many awards. While...

Welsh poet, translator, and painter Vernon Watkins was born in Maesteg, Wales, in 1906. He studied at Repton School and Magdalene College, Cambridge University before taking a job at a bank in Cardiff. In ...

Alun Lewis was a Welsh poet and soldier who died fighting in World War II. Born in Aberdare, Wales, he developed an early interest in English poetry. After the outbreak of the war, he joined the British Army...

Poet and writer William Henry Davies was born in Newport, Wales. His father died when he was three years old, and after his mother’s subsequent remarriage, Davies was raised by his grandparents. He attended...

Patrick Shaw-Stewart was born in Wales to a British military family. He attended Eton and Balliol College, Oxford where he excelled academically and was elected a Fellow of All Souls College. Associated with...

Evelyn Beatrice Roberts—known as Lynette Roberts—was born in Buenos Aires in 1909 to parents of Welsh origin. As a young woman, she moved to London and studied art at the Central School for Arts and Crafts...

Waldo Williams (1904–1971) is widely regarded as one of the finest poets Wales has ever produced. Dail pren (The leaves of the tree) was the only volume of poems he published during his lifetime.

The title of Dannie Abse’s collected poems, White Coat, Purple Coat (1989), refers to his lifelong professions of physician and poet. Of these careers, Abse has stated, “I like to think I’m a poet and Medicine...

Henry Vaughan, the major Welsh poet of the Commonwealth period, has been among the writers benefiting most from the twentieth-century revival of interest in the poetry of John Donne and his followers. Vaughan...

Recognized as one of the leading poets of modern Wales, R. S. Thomas writes about the people of his country in a style that some critics have compared to that nation's harsh and rugged terrain. Using few of...

Born in Swansea, Wales, Dylan Thomas is famous for his acutely lyrical and emotional poetry, as well as his turbulent personal life. The originality of his work makes categorization difficult. In his life ...

Prolific 14th-century Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym is considered by many to be one of the greatest Welsh-language poets. Though what is most of what is known about his life is gathered from his poetry, it is...

Nestled in the age of Shakespeare and Milton is the literary stalwart George Herbert, poet and Church of England clergyman. Herbert's poetry would influence fellow poets such as Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw...

Born in Cambridge, England, Anne Stevenson moved between the United States and the United Kingdom numerous times during the first half of her life. While she considered herself an American, Stevenson qualified...