Meic Stephens Papers, (GB 0210 MEIPHENS)

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Tabl cynnwys | Table of contents

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Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information

Lleoliad | Repository: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Teitl | Title: Meic Stephens Papers, ID: GB 0210 MEIPHENS Virtua system control vtls003844674 number [alternative]: Project identifier ANW [alternative]: Dyddiad | Date: 1970-1987 / (dyddiad creu | date of creation) Disgrifiad ffisegol | 0.038 cubic metres (1 box); 2 boxes were purchased March 2007. Physical description: Lleoliad ffisegol | ARCH/MSS (GB0210) Physical location: Dyddiadau creu, golygu a dileu | Dates of creation, revision and deletion: Nodyn | Note Title supplied from contents of fonds. [generalNote]:

Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch

Nodyn | Note Meic Stephens, poet and editor, was born in Trefforest and educated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and the University of Rennes. From 1962 to 1966, he taught French in Ebbw Vale. He established The Triskel Press at Merthyr Tydfil, where he lived at the time, and also launched the periodical Poetry Wales, which he edited from 1965 until 1973; also served for a year on the staff of the Western Mail. In 1967, Stephens was appointed Literary Director with the Welsh Arts Council. He published his first poetic works in Triad (1963). His work Linguistic Minorities in Western Europe (Llandysul, 1976) involved a detailed study of culture and politics in sixteen European states. Amongst the works edited by Stephens are an anthology of Anglo-Welsh poetry titled The Lilting House (with John Stuart Williams, London and Llandybïe, 1969), Artists in Wales (three volumes, Llandysul, 1971, 1973, 1977), the Writers of Wales series (with R. Brinley Jones, 1970- ), the poetic anthology Green Horse (with Peter Finch, Swansea, 1978), and Cydymaith i Lenyddiaeth Cymru (Llandysul, 1986).

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Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch

Nodyn | Note Meic Stephens (b.1938) from Treforest, Glamorgan, is a literary journalist, translator as well as a poet and editor. He studied at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, the University Colege of North Wales, Bangor, and at the University of Rennes in France. He taught French at Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, from 1962-1966. In Merthyr Tydfil, he founded the Triskel Press and Poetry Wales. He wrote a pioneering book Linguistic Minorities in Eastern Europe in 1976. He wrote and published his own poetry, compiled and edited six anthologies of Welsh wiriting in English, edited the work of other poets, and published the Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales (1986 and 1998) amongst other works. He learnt Welsh as an adult and became an active member of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Cymraeg as well as Plaid Cymru. From 1967 until 1990 he was Literature Director of the Welsh Arts Council. He was Visiting Professor in the English Department at Brigham Young University in Utah. He teaches Journalism and Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan. He writes about Welsh literature for the Western Mail.

Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content

Correspondence, 1970-1977, accumulated by Meic Stephens in the course of editing Artists in Wales, volumes 1-3 (Llandysul, 1971-1977), from artists in the fields of literature, drama, music and the visual arts; letters, 1977-1978, from poets invited to contribute to Green Horse : an anthology by young poets of Wales edited by him (Swansea, 1978); letters, 1978-1979, relating to The Welsh Language Today (second edition, Llandysul, 1979); and correspondence, 1986-1987, between Meic Stephens and Lady Amy Parry- Williams relating to the former's translations into English of essays by T H Parry-Williams, published in The White Stone - six essays by T H Parry-Williams (Llandysul, 1987). An additional consignment of the papers of Meic Stephens. This group remains uncatalogued.

Nodiadau | Notes

Nodiadau teitl | Title notes

Ffynhonnell | Immediate source of acquisition Purchased from Meic Stephens, in 1989 and March 2007.

Trefniant | Arrangement Arranged chronologically.

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Amodau rheoli defnydd | Conditions governing use Usual copyright regulations apply.

Rhestrau cymorth | Finding aids A hard copy of the catalogue is available in Minor Lists and Summaries 1990, pp.74-75, at the National Library of Wales. The catalogue can be accessed online.

Disgrifiadau deunydd | Related material NLW MS 22003D, NLW MSS 23111-12E, NLW ex 1797, NLW ex 1055, NLW ex 835, Poetry Wales Archive, the Welsh Arts Council Papers, and three scrapbooks on 'The Arts in Wales'.

Ychwanegiadau | Accruals Accruals are possible.

Nodiadau eraill | Other notes • Statws cyhoeddiad | Publication status: Published • Dynodwr sefydliad | Institution identifier: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points

• Stephens, Meic -- Archives. (pwnc) | (subject) • Parry-Williams, Amy, Lady, 1910-1988. (pwnc) | (subject) • Parry-Williams, T. H. (Thomas Herbert), Sir, 1887-1975. (pwnc) | (subject) • Journalists -- Wales. (pwnc) | (subject) • Arts -- Wales. (pwnc) | (subject) • Welsh literature -- 20th century (pwnc) | (subject) • Welsh literature -- English language (pwnc) | (subject) • Welsh poetry -- 20th century (pwnc) | (subject) • English poetry -- Welsh authors. (pwnc) | (subject)

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Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions

Cod cyfeirnod | Ref Teitl | Title Dyddiadau | Statws mynediad | Cynhwysydd | code Dates Access status Container 1. vtls005339941 File - Letters from artists in the fields of 1970-1977. 1. ISYSARCHB18 literature, drama, music and the visual arts, invited to contribute to Artists in ..., 2. vtls005339942 File - Letters from poets invited to 1977-1978. 2. ISYSARCHB18 contribute to Green Horse: an anthology by young poets of Wales edited by Meic Stephens ..., 3. vtls005339943 File - Letters relating to the second 1978-1979. 3. ISYSARCHB18 edition of The Welsh Language Today, including letters from: Lord Chalfont (3/1); Cynog Dafis (3/2-4) ..., 4. vtls005339944 File - Correspondence between Meic 1986-1987. 4. ISYSARCHB18 Stephens and Lady Amy Parry-Williams relating to the former's translations into English of essays by T H ...,

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