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N. E. Vaughn (born 1801 - died 1899) was a poet and editor in the Welsh lyrical tradition,[1] best known for his editorialisation and promotion of other Welsh poets in the bardic or eisteddfod tradition, including Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr), William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog), and David Griffith (Clwydfardd).[2] In his lifetime, Vaughn published much of his own poetry under the pseudonym 'Geraint Vaughan-Jones',[3] a reference to the Welsh word for 'old man' and a character from Welsh folklore and Arthurian legend.
A fragment of Vaughn's most famous surviving work 'O’er the Northern Islets Doth Silent Streams Propitiate' was preserved in W. F. Skene's The Four Ancient Books of Wales:
On Orkney’s shores a holy well
Does spurt from verdant forest dell
An artery of bloodied starts
Transformed through the most holy arts
...
A silent man of Reticence
Dids’t perish without sound defence
To whit the final secret spun
Academic efforts continue to be made to uncover and translate more of Vaughn's original poetry.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Griffith, David (1 August 2000). Right man, right time: David Griffith, 'Clwydfardd', the first archdruid of Wales (in Enhlish and Welsh) (1st ed.). Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire: David Griffith. pp. 16–17. ISBN 9780953810505.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Morris, Jan (1 January 1984). The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country (1st ed.). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. pp. 34–35. ISBN 0195042212.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ "Dictionary of Welsh Biography". biography.wales. Retrieved 2025-08-12.
- ^ Skene, W. F. (1868). The Four Books of Ancient Wales (in English and Welsh) (1st ed.). Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas. pp. 14–16, 34. ISBN 9781605061658.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ^ Kostas, A. A. (13 August 2025). "The Isle of Cryptoslavery". Apocrypha. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
- ^ Salisbury, Eurig (2019). "Enhancing understanding of Welsh language poetry in Wales and beyond" (PDF). Prifysgol Aberystwyth | Aberystwyth University.
Bibliography
[edit]Davies, W. Beynon (1970). Thomas Gwynn Jones. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 0900768630. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century ebook, bookrags.com; accessed 6 October 2015.