Ieuan Dyfi

Ieuan Dyfi (c. 1461? – c. 1500?) was a Welsh language poet.

Very little information has survived relating to Ieuan and his poetry. Ieuan composed a poem to a woman named “Anni Goch” in which he accuses how false women have been throughout history ("Anni Goch," however, may well be a stock character). This provoked Gwerful Mechain to respond with her poem [http://cy.wikisource.org/wiki/I_Wragedd_Eiddigeddus “I Wragedd Eiddigeddus”] .

References

* Nerys Ann Howells, "Gwaith Gwerful Mechain ac Eraill", University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 2001
* Andrew Breeze, ‘The Bret Glascurion and Chaucer's House of Fame’, "The Review of English Studies", Vol. 45, No. 177, 1994
* Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, The "Querelle des Femmes": A Continuing Tradition in Welsh Women's Literature’, Turnhout, 2000