Ieuan Dyfi

Ieuan Dyfi (c. 1461? – after 1502?) was a Welsh language poet.

Ieuan Dyfi
Born	1461
Died	after 1502
Nationality	Welsh
Occupation	Poet

Poetry

Very little information has survived relating to Ieuan and his poetry. Ieuan composed five poems to a woman named “Anni Goch” in one of which he accuses how false women have been throughout history. Recent research has shown that Ieuan Dyfi was brought before a church court, where he admitted adultery with Anni, a married woman. His poems about Anni provoked Gwerful Mechain to respond with her poem “I Ateb Ieuan Dyfi am gywydd Anni Goch”.[1]

References

1. Nerys Ann Howells, Gwaith Gwerful Mechain ac Eraill, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 2001, pp. 80-1

• Smith, Llinos Beverley, 'Olrhain Anni Goch', Ysgrifau Beirniadol 19, ed. J. E. Caerwyn Williams. Dinbych: Gwasg Gee, 1993, 107-26
• 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