The Bards of Wales
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The Bards of Wales is a ballad by the Hungarian poet János Arany, written in 1857. Alongside the Toldi trilogy, it is one of his best known works.
János Arany
The Bard, by John Martin (1789-1854), and inspired by Thomas Gray's poem of the same name.
Album cover of The Bards Of Wales by Karl Jenkins (2012)
The Bard (poem)
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The Bard. A Pindaric Ode is a poem by Thomas Gray, set at the time of Edward I's conquest of Wales. Inspired partly by his research into medieval history and literature, partly by his discovery of Wel
The Bards of Wales
…similar denunciation of King Edward to his face had already been followed by the suicide of the last Welsh poet at the end of Thomas Gray's 1757 poem The Bard (set c. 1283), and which, along with the legend, may also have inspired Arany. Gray's poem is also similar in being intended as an encoded criticism…
Title-page of The Bard illustrated by William Blake, c. 1798
The Bard (1774) by Thomas Jones, National Museum Cardiff
William Etty, Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm, 1832