Nathaniel Jones (poet)

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Nathaniel Jones (April 19, 1832 – December 14, 1905), was a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist minister and poet.

Nathaniel Jones took his bardic name of "Cynhafal" from his birthplace of Llangynhafal in Denbighshire. He worked as a tailor, and later as a sales assistant, before becoming a preacher in 1859. He went on to the Calvinistic Methodist College at Bala, becoming a minister at Penrhyndeudraeth in 1865.

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  • Fy Awenydd (1859)
  • Elias y Thesbiad (1869)
  • Y Messiah (1895)
  • Charles o'r Bala (1898)

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