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Talent lost to war: Hedd Wyn

Source wikipedia Hedd Wyn  (born  Ellis Humphrey Evans , 13 January 1887 – 31 July 1917) was a  Welsh-language   poet  who was killed on the first day of the  Battle of Passchendaele  during  World War I . He was posthumously awarded the  bard's chair  at the 1917  National Eisteddfod . Evans, who had been awarded several chairs for his poetry, was inspired to take the bardic name  Hedd Wyn  ( Welsh :  blessed peace ) from the way sunlight penetrated the mist in the  Meirionnydd  valleys. Born in the village of  Trawsfynydd ,  North Wales , Evans wrote much of his poetry while working as a  shepherd  on his family's hill farm. His style, which was influenced by  romantic poetry , was dominated by themes of nature and religion. He also wrote several  war poems  following the outbreak of war on the  Western Front  in 1914. Ellis Humphrey Evans was...