Editing John Ceiriog Hughes (section)

==Poetry==
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Hughes made his first attempts at poetry while a pupil at Nant y Glôg School, after his father had given him a book on Welsh grammar, including a section on the sound arrangement known as [[cynghanedd]].

Ceiriog's desire to restore simplicity of diction and emotional sincerity to Welsh poetry did for it what [[Wordsworth]] and [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Coleridge]] had done for English. He is noted for an attempt to create a new Welsh culture and raise the status of the Welsh people, after the publication of the notorious [[Treachery of the Blue Books|Blue Books]] on education in Wales. His lyric poetry rested on traditional folk song and earned national attention when he won the Llangollen Eisteddfod in 1858 with a love poem, "Myfanwy Fychan o Gastell Dinas Brân" (Little Myfanwy from [[Castell Dinas Brân]]).

Ceiriog's first poetry collection of poetry appeared in 1860 as ''Oriau'r Hwyr'' (Evening Hours). He also wrote light-hearted lyrics, which he adapted to old Welsh tunes or to original composed music. Such lyrics include "[[Dafydd y Garreg Wen]]" (David of the White Rock) and "[[Ar Hyd y Nos]]" (All Through the Night). He also wrote Welsh lyrics for the song "[[God Bless the Prince of Wales]]" and the [[Charles Dibdin]] song, "[[The Bells of Aberdovey]]", which he translated as "Clychau Aberdyfi".

Ceiriog Hughes wrote Welsh-language lyrics for "[[The Ash Grove]]" which were published in Brinley Richards's ''The Songs of Wales'' (1873). Although one source says that Ceiriog Hughes's Welsh lyrics for "[[Men of Harlech]]" were first published in 1890, remarking that the English words followed only in 1893,<ref name=fuld>James J. Fuld, ''The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk'', Dover, 5th ed., 2000, pg. 394.</ref> Ceiriog's lyrics for "[[Men of Harlech]]" are also to be found in Brinley Richards's ''The Songs of Wales'' (1873).

Like many Welsh poets, Ceiriog adopted a [[bardic name]] – "Ceiriog" from [[Ceiriog Valley]], where he was born. The hall in his home village contains a memorial inscription to him.