About Edward Richard
Edward Richard (March 1714 – 4 March 1777) was a Welsh poet. Edward Richard showed his first pastoral to Ieuan Brydydd Hir, Lewis Morris, and Richard Morris, and it was first published in the 1767 Almanac of Gwilym Howel. This pastoral was occasioned by the death of his mother. Richard was author of pastoral poetry in the Welsh language, poems are on the plan of those of Theocritus and Virgil. In 1776 there was published in Shrewsbury, by J. Eddowes, Bugeilgerdd, Yr Ail yn y Iaith Gymraeg gan Edward Richard. Awdur y Guntaf.Browse all poems and texts published on Edward Richard
