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English:
Eben the Poet
Original name:
Ebenezer Thomas
Born:
August 1802, Llanarmon, Caernarvonshire, Wales
Died:
Feb. 17, 1863 (aged 60)
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Eben Fardd

Welsh poet
Also known as: Eben the Poet, Ebenezer Thomas
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Eben Fardd (born August 1802, Llanarmon, Caernarvonshire, Wales—died Feb. 17, 1863) was a Welsh-language poet, the last of the 19th-century bards to contribute works of genuine poetic distinction to the eisteddfods (poetic competitions).

His best-known poems include Dinystr Jerusalem (“Destruction of Jerusalem”), an ode that won the prize at the Welshpool eisteddfod (1824); Job, which won at Liverpool (1840); and Maes Bosworth (“Bosworth Field”), which won at Llangollen (1858). In addition to his eisteddfodic compositions, he wrote many hymns, a collection of which was published in 1862. His complete works appeared under the title Gweithiau Barddonol Eben Fardd (1875; “Poetic Works of Eben Fardd”). From 1827 he conducted a school at Clynnog, Caernarvonshire.

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