Keidrych Rhys

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William Ronald Rhys Jones (1915 – 1987), who used the name Keidrych Rhys, was a Welsh literary journalist and editor, and a poet. From 1937 his editorship of the Anglo-Welsh magazine Wales was an important influence, in particular on Welsh-language literature.

In the Wales magazine, Rhys published articles, short stories, and poems by an array of predominantly Welsh writers and thinkers, such as Alun Lewis, Saunders Lewis, Dylan Thomas, Glyn Jones and Lynette Roberts. The prototype articles for Robert Graves's legendary book on mythology anfd poetry The White Goddess were published as three articles (Dog, Roebuck and Lapwing) between 1943 to 1945 in this magazine. Graves, who became close correspondents with Rhys and his wife, the poet Lynette Roberts, held high hopes for this magazine, which he felt could be a "record-vehicle" for a new movement of tradition-minded, modern Celtic poets.

He was married to Lynette Roberts from 1939 to 1949.