of the three Islands of Britain,
and the three adjacent islands,
and of Brittany, Normandy,
and the Summer country
And let it be proclaimed,
the hunting of the hog,
has been sung by David Jones
and neither Taliesin nor Aneirin
nor Dafydd ap Gwilym himself
The Early Bards,
the Not So Early bards,
the Poets of the Princes,
the Poets of the Well to Do
the keepers of old lore, or
the skilled translators of his vanished tongue,
(loving this story in elegant prose translations)
nor modern experts in the intricate cynghanedd
nor any poet of that other language,
could sing it better.
My recording of The Hunt by David Jones is here:
http://www.liamguilar.com/the-poetry-voice/2019/4/2/david-jones-the-hunt
There’s a recording of David Jones reading The Hunt with a short introduction here:
https://bebrowed.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/david-jones-reads-the-hunt/
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