Editing Hedd Wyn (section)

==Early life==
Ellis Humphrey Evans was born on 13 January 1887 at Penlan,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.trawsfynydd.org/wp/?page_id=22|title=Trawsfynydd – History}}</ref> a house in the centre of [[Trawsfynydd]], [[Meirionydd]], [[Wales]]. He was the eldest of eleven children born to Evan and Mary Evans. In the spring of 1887, the family moved to his father's family 168-acre hill-farm of Yr Ysgwrn, in Cwm Prysor, a few miles from [[Trawsfynydd]].<ref>Llwyd (2009), p. 7</ref> He spent his life there, apart from a short stint in South Wales.

Ellis Evans received a basic education from the age of six at the local primary school and Sunday school. He left school around fourteen years of age and worked as a [[shepherd]] on his father's farm.<ref>Llwyd (2009), p. 17</ref> Despite his brief attendance in formal schooling (6–14) he had a talent for poetry and had already composed his first poem by the age of eleven, "Y Das Fawn" (the peat stack). Ellis's interests included both Welsh and English poetry. His main influence was the [[Romantic poetry]] of [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], and themes of nature and religion dominated his work.