Hedd Wyn (born Ellis Humphrey Evans, 13 January 1887 – 31 July 1917) was a Welsh-language poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I. He was posthumously awarded the bard's chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod.

Ellis Evans (1887-1917), better known by his bardic name Hedd Wyn, died during the Battle of Passchendaele. Weeks after his death, his poem ‘Yr Arwr’ (The Hero) won the 1917 Eisteddfod Bardic Chair (the highest honour bestowed to Welsh language poets).

Hedd Wyn was a Welsh-language poet and shepherd. He led a typical 19th-century rural Welsh life in Trawsfynydd where religion, agriculture and Eisteddfodau were inherent parts of society. As a Christian pacifist, Hedd Wyn did not enlist during the first half of the war.

Ellis Evans, better known by his Bardic name Hedd Wyn, died during the First World War in 1917. He left a remarkable legacy which can be explored at his home, Yr Ysgwrn in Eryri (Snowdonia). Find out more about our 'solider poet'. The greatest honour for any Welsh poet is to win the chair at the National Eisteddfod.

2012年8月24日 · In 1907, the poet won his first chair at the Bala Eisteddfod. In 1909, he acquired the bardic name of Hedd Wyn (Blessed Peace). The poet’s love of the landscape of the Prysor Valley, which is little changed from the way it was a century ago, …

2017年7月30日 · On the first day - 31 July, 1917 - the Welsh poet Hedd Wyn fell in those Belgium fields. "Chaired bard dead?" screamed the headline - "National Sensation".

2022年3月1日 · We commence the first week of Reading Wales 2022 with a poem written by the Welsh-language poet Hedd Wyn. To mark Saint David’s Day and the start of Dewithon 2022, I share the moving poem Rhyfel (War) in both English and Welsh.

Hedd Wyn was immortalised in R. Williams Parry’s ‘Englynion Coffa Hedd Wyn’ and in the film ‘Hedd Wyn’, which was nominated for an Oscar in 1994. Discover more about Yr Ysgwrn, the traditional Welsh stone farmhouse that Hedd Wyn called home.

Hedd Wyn (born Ellis Humphrey Evans), (1887 – 1917) was a Welsh-language poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I. He was posthumously awarded the bard’s chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod .

2017年6月6日 · Yr Ysgwrn is a cultural symbol to the people of Wales - recognised as the home of one of our greatest poets, Ellis Humphrey Evans who is better know by the bardic name of Hedd Wyn ('Blessed Peace'). Hedd Wyn was killed at the Battle of Passchendaele, a few weeks before it was announced that he had achieved his life's ambition, to win the ...