For the convenience of current and future scholars and poets, here are the key source texts of the 1915-1924 Taliesin controversy in chronological order:<\/p>\n
1. John Gwenogvryn Evans, Facsimile & text of the Book of Taliesin<\/a><\/em>, 1916.<\/p>\n 2. John Gwenogvryn Evans, Poems from the Book of Taliesin<\/a><\/em>, 1916. Complete translations by Evans from the original manuscript, completed over seven years. Evans had been a speaker of Welsh in Carmarthenshire until age 19, when he learned English, but thereafter lived in England (he later retired to Wales).<\/p>\n Note that, “Though thus dated [1910 and 1915 respectively], the volumes [above] were not issued until 1916.” — Y Cymmrodor<\/em>, 1918.<\/p>\n 3. The Athenaeum<\/em>, 1916, issues 4601-4612. Review by Quiggin of Evans’s book editions of Taliesin. A substantial section is given in Y Cymmrodor<\/em>, 1924.<\/p>\n 4. John Morris-Jones, Y Cymmrodor<\/em> 1918, Vol 24.<\/a> A substantial attack on Evans for his edition of Taliesin, and with a very strong Welsh nationalist flavour to it. The review was assisted by Ifor Williams. See Evans’s 1924 rebuttal.<\/p>\n 5. Gilbert Waterhouse, The Year Book of Modern Languages<\/em>, 1920. Annual review of the recent Celtic literature, and which addresses the dating of the life of Taliesin. “John Morris-Jones undertook to review Dr Gwenogvryn Evans\u2019 two volumes on Taliesin [but he supports] his linguistic arguments with rather slender palaeographical evidence”. (At Google Books in Preview).<\/p>\n 6. John Gwenogvryn Evans, Y Cymmrodor<\/em> 1924, Vol. 34<\/a>. Evans’s book-length reply to his 1918 critic.<\/p>\n 7. Obituary of John Gwenogvryn Evans<\/a>, J. Vendryes in Revue celtique<\/em> 47, 1930. <\/p>\n