Wiliam Midleton

Wiliam Midleton (c.1550 – c. 1596) was a Welsh language poet.

Wiliam was born into a prosperous family that has been the patrons of poets. He learnt the craft of Welsh bardic poets and around 1594 he “Bardhoniaeth, neu brydydhiaeth” which he intended ta act as an aid to others who wished to practice the craft.

In 1595 Wiliam composed a metrical Welsh translation of the Psalms entitled “Rhann o psalmae Davyd, a phropwyti eraill”. A completed version entitled “Psalmae y brenhinol brophwyd Dafydh” was published posthumously in 1603.

ee also

[http://cy.wikisource.org/wiki/Categori:Wiliam_Midleton Wiliam Midleton at Wikisource]

References

*Barddoniaeth neu brydyddiaeth: gan Wiliam Midleton, ed. G. J. Williams (1930)
*G. A. Williams, ‘Wiliam Midleton, Elizabethan poet and privateer’, Maritime Wales, (1976)