Interlude
11.5 'Makers of Modern Wales'
DAVID WILLIAMS
Lesson 1—'Ellis Wynne '
Ellis Wynne with his companion
Sleep visits some typical Welsh scenes, which he afterwards described in his visions of the Sleeping Bard
A dramatic interlude
On a nazy afternoon in summer
Ellis Wynne fell asleep on a hill near his home, and there he had a three-fold vision of the world, death, and hell. His book, ' Visions of the Sleeping Bard is the greatest prose work in the Welsh language, giving ".remarkable vision of the Wales of his day.
