Ellis Wynne

Ellis Wynne (born March 7, 1671, Y Lasynys, Merioneth, Wales—died July 13, 1734, Llanfair, Merioneth) was a clergyman and author whose Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc (1703; “Visions of the Sleeping Bard”) is generally considered the greatest Welsh prose classic. An adaptation of Sir Roger L’Estrange’s translation of the Spanish satirist Quevedo’s Sueños (1627; “Visions”), savage pictures of contemporary evils, it followed its original closely. Wynne, however, used colloquial language and transmuted the characters and the...