Complex sentence: Her death in 1853, at the age of twenty, became a source of poetic inspiration to him, and he was a regular winner of local Eisteddfod prizes from the 1850s onwards, taking his bardic name from the mountain Mynyddislwyn, above his home.
Split into simpler sentences: Her death in 1853, at the age of twenty, became a source of poetic inspiration to him. He was a regular winner of local Eisteddfod prizes from the 1850s onwards, taking his bardic name from the mountain Mynyddislwyn, above his home.