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Dafydd ap Gwilym.
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In the following essay, Fulton compares and contrasts the poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym to that of Chaucer, suggesting that while both are creative yet traditionalist, Dafydd distinguishes himself with h...
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In the following excerpt, Bromwich analyzes the metre of the works of Dafydd and his contemporaries, and its societal and artistic implications.
The following lively fragment describing a horse is quo...
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In the following essay, Knight highlights the key attributes of Dafydd's work within the context of various translations and their ensuing repercussions.
This paper discusses problems and possi...
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In the following essay, Johnston comments on the significance of the house and its prominence in Dafydd's narrative serenades.
A serenade is a poem addressed by a lover to his beloved as he sta...
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In the following excerpt, Loesch provides a rough background of Dafydd and illustrates some of his most famous verses.
Dafydd ap Gwilym still stands as the greatest poet that ever wrote in Welsh and a...
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In the following essay, Fulton correlates Dafydd with Colin Muset, a thirteenth-century French poet and musician, citing similarities in their themes of the “good life” and their functio...
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In the following essay, Fulton explores the concept of intertextuality, or the idea that writings refer only to each other and not directly to reality, and how it operates in Dafydd's work.
One...
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In the following essay, Davies traces the use of carpentry as a metaphor in various genres of literature, centering his argument around the way Dafydd ap Gwilym may have been influenced to use such a ...
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Critical Essay by Helen Fulton
