This book gives mature and comprehensive discussion to outstanding questions concerning the genesis of Dafydd ap Gwilym's poetic genius. Huw Edwards's study will long remain essential to future investigations of this subject ... Huw Edwards's book makes a substantial contribution to a currently on-going discussion. It is to be hoped that this fine study, with its accurate English translations, will go some way towards breaching the language barrier, and will win for
Dafydd some part of the recognition to which the distinction of his greatest poetry has long entitled him.