Edmwnd Prys

…of this new development were Edmwnd Prys’s metrical version of the Psalms and Rhys Prichard’s Canwyll y Cymry (1646–72; “The Welshman’s Candle”), both written in so-called free meters. Prys’s Psalter contained the first Welsh metrical hymns. Prichard’s work consisted of moral verses in the meters of the old folk songs…