Cyflwyniad hwyliog i hanes llenyddiaeth Gymraeg, gyda, Jerry Hunter, hogyn o’r Midwest yn America yn dysgu Richard Wyn Jones, hogyn o ganolbarth Sir Fôn, am drysorau’i iaith ei hun.
Yr Hen Iaith
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Cyflwyniad hwyliog i hanes llenyddiaeth Gymraeg, gyda, Jerry Hunter, hogyn o’r Midwest yn America yn dysgu Richard Wyn Jones, hogyn o ganolbarth Sir Fôn, am drysorau’i iaith ei hun.
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June 11, 2026
Pennod 89 - Gwilym Hiraethog
Pe bai’n rhaid dewis un llenor yn unig wrth drafod holl lenyddiaeth Gymraeg y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg, mae Jerry Hunter yn dweud y byddai’n dewis Gwilym Hiraethog (1802-1883). Ganed William Rees mewn teulu o amaethwyr cymharol dlawd ym mhlwyf Llansannan, sir Ddinbych. Ychydig iawn o addysg ffurfiol a gafodd, ond eto byddai’r dyn rhyfeddol hwn yn cyfrannu mewn llawer iawn o wahanol ffyrdd at fywyd llenyddol a deallusol Cymru. Aeth yn weinidog yng Nghapel Lôn Swan, Dinbych, gan ddilyn Robert Everett, ac yn debyg i’r gweinidog hwnnw a ymfudodd i’r UDA, roedd gwrthwynebu caethwasiaeth ymysg yr achosion radicalaidd a goleddid gan Gwilym Hiraethog. Symudodd i Lerpwl wedyn gan fynd yn un o hoelion wyth cymuned Gymraeg y ddinas honno. Roedd yn fardd amryddawn: cyfansoddodd nifer o emynau sy’n cael eu canu hyd heddiw (er mawr siom i Jerry Hunter, gwrthododd Richard Wyn Jones ganu un!), ysgrifennodd rai o gerddi caeth mwyaf poblogaidd ei gyfnod, ac arbrofodd gyda ffurf heriol honno, yr ‘arwrgerdd’. Roedd hefyd yn un o arloeswyr y nofel Gymraeg. Fel sylfaenydd a golygydd Yr Amserau, aeth ymysg cynheiliaid pwysicaf y wasg gyfnodol Gymraeg yn y cyfnod hefyd, a chyhoeddodd lawer o ysgrifau yn y papur hwnnw a gyflwynai wleidyddiaeth Ewropeaidd radicalaidd i ddarllenwyr Cymraeg. * Gwilym Hiraethog If one had to choose only one writer while discussing all of the Welsh-language literature from the nineteenth century, Jerry Hunter says he’d choose Gwilym Hiraethog (1802-1883). William Rees was born into a family of comparatively poor farmers in the partish of Llansannan, Denbighshire. He had very little formal education, yet this amazing man would contribute in very many different ways to the literary and intellectual life of Wales. He became minister of the Swan Lane Chapel in Denbigh, following Robert Everett, and, like that minister who emigrated to the USA, opposing slavery was one of the radical causes embraced by Gwilym Hiraethog. He then moved to Liverpool and became a mainstay of the Welsh community in that city. He was a multi-facted poet: he composed a number of hymns which are still sung today (to Jerry Hunter’s great disappointment, Richard Wyn Jones refused to sing one!), he wrote some of the most popular strict-metre poetry of his period, and he experimented with that challenging form, the epic. He was also one of the pioneers of the Welsh novel. As founder and editor of Yr Amserau [‘The Times’], he was amongst the most important people supporting the Welsh-language periodical press in the period as well, and he published many pieces in that paper which presented radical European politics to Welsh readers. Cyflwynwyd gan: Yr Athro Jerry Hunter a'r Athro Richard Wyn Jones Cynhyrchwyd gan: Richard Martin ar gyfer Mimosa Cymru Cerddoriaeth: 'Might Have Done' gan The Molenes Darllen Pellach/Further Reading: - Thomas Roberts a David Roberts, Cofiant y Parch. W. Rees, D.D. (Gwilym Hiraethog) (1893). - E. G. Millward, Yr Arwrgedd Gymraeg: Ei Thwf a’i Thranc (1998). - Jerry Hunter, I Ddeffro Ysbryd y Wlad: Robert Everett a’r Ymgyrch yn Erbyn Caethwasanaeth Americanaidd (2007).
May 29, 2026
Pennod 88 - ‘Chwaeth bresennol y Bobl’: Ceiriog
Trafodwn John Ceiriog Hughes (1832-1887) yn y bennod hon. Ceiriog o bosib oedd y bardd Cymraeg mwyaf poblogaidd yn ystod ail hanner y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg. Wrth graffu ar y modd yr aeth ati i greu a chyflwyno delweddau ‘derbynol’ o Gymru a’r Cymry, nodwn fod ei waith yn enghraifft dda o’r effaith andwyol a gafodd ‘y Llyfrau Gleision’ ar y traddodiad llenyddol Cymraeg. Dyfynnwn Hywel Teifi Edwards a ddywedodd mai ‘gwas ei gymdeithas’ oedd Ceiriog, ac yntau’n ‘bodloni anghenion ei oes’ yn hytrach na’u herio. Ond rydym ni hefyd yn pwysleisio dawn bardd a lwyddodd i gyfansoddi penillion a fyddai’n ennill statws oesol caneuon gweriniol. Mae’r bennod hon hefyd yn gyfle i ystyried cydberthynas barddoniaeth a cherddoriaeh yng Nghymru yn ystod Oes Fictoria. Ac mae’n dda gorffen trwy ddarllen englyn gan Ceiriog sy’n cyflwyno golwg tra gwahanol ar ei waith! ** ‘The Present Taste of the People’: Ceiriog In this episode we discuss John Ceiriog Hughes (1832-1887). Ceiriog was possibly the most popular Welsh poet of the second half of the nineteenth century. While examining the way in which he strove to create and present ‘acceptable’ images of Wales and the Welsh, we note that his work is a good example of the stultifying effect which the ‘Blue Books’ had on the Welsh literary tradition. We quote Hywel Teifi Edwards who said that Ceiriog was ‘the servant of his society’, as he sought to ‘satisfy the needs of his age’ rather than challenge them. But we also stress the talent of a poet who managed to compose verses which would achieve the ageless status of folk songs. This episode also gives us an opportunity to consider the relationshiop between poetry and music in Wales in the Victorian Age. And it’s nice to be able to finish by reading an englyn by Ceiriog which presents a very different look at his work! Cyflwynwyd gan: Yr Athro Jerry Hunter a'r Athro Richard Wyn Jones Cynhyrchwyd gan: Richard Martin ar gyfer Mimosa Cymru Cerddoriaeth: 'Might Have Done' gan The Molenes Darllen Pellach/Further Reading: - Hywel Teifi Edwards, Ceiriog (1987)
May 14, 2026
Pennod 87 - ‘Pur fel y Dur’: Y Llyfrau Gleision a Llên Benywod
Dyma ni’n parhau i drafod effaith y ‘Llyfrau Gleision’ ar lenyddiaeth Gymraeg, gan ganolbwynio’n benodol ar lais llenyddol y Gymraes y tro hwn. Mae teitl y bennod hon yn deyrnged i astudiaeth ardderchog Jane Aaron, Pur fel y Dur[:] Y Gymraes yn Llên Menywod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg, cyfrol sydd, yng ngeiriau’i hawdur, yn archhwilio’r modd yr ‘ymrithiodd arwres newydd’ ‘o burdan enllib y Sais’. Awn ati i ystyried y gyfrol gyntaf o farddoniaeth Gymraeg gan fenyw a gyhoeddwyd, sef Telyn Egryn gan Elin Evans neu ‘Elen Egryn’. Edrychwn hefyd ar y rhagymadrodd gan Gwilym Hiraethog, testun sydd, ymysg pethau eraill, yn cymharu (diffyg) llenyddiaeth y Gymraes a chynnyrch llenyddol y Saesnes. Cawn gyfle wedyn i grybwyll y cyfnodolyn Y Gymraes: cylchgrawn i ferched Cymru. ** ‘As Pure as Steel’: The Blue Books and Women’s Literature We continue to discuss the effect of the ‘Blue Books’ on Welsh literature, concentrating this time on the Welsh woman’s literary voice. This episode’s title pays tribute to Jane Aaron’s excellent study Pur fel y Dur[:] Y Gymraes yn Llên Menywod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg (‘As Pure as Steel: The Welsh woman in Women’s Literature of the Nineteenth Century’), a volume which, in the words of its author, examines the way in wich ‘a new heroine appeared’ ‘from the purgatory of the Englishman’s slander’. We consider the first volume of Welsh poetry published by a woman, namely Telyn Egryn by Elin Evans or ‘Elen Egryn’. We also look at Gwilym Hiraethog’s introduction to the book, a text which, in addition to other things, compares (the lack of) literature by Welsh women with English women’s literary produce. We then get an opportunity to mention the periodical Y Gymraes: cylchgrawn i ferched Cymru (‘The Welshwoman: a journal for women’). Cyflwynwyd gan: Yr Athro Jerry Hunter a'r Athro Richard Wyn Jones Cynhyrchwyd gan: Richard Martin ar gyfer Mimosa Cymru Cerddoriaeth: 'Might Have Done' gan The Molenes Darllen Pellach/Further Reading: - Jane Aaron, Pur fel y Dur[:] Y Gymraes yn Llên Menywod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg (1998). - Elen Egryn, Telyn Egryn (1850, adargraffiad Gwasg Honno, 1998). - Gellir gweld y ‘Llyfrau Gleision’ ar wefan Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: https://www.llyfrgell.cymru/darganfod-dysgu/arddangosfeydd-arlein/europeana-rise-of-literacy/y-llyfrau-gleision/report-of-the-commissioners-of-inquiry-into-the-state-of-education-in-wales
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