Lynette Roberts

Bardd o Gymru oedd Lynette Roberts (ganwyd Evelyn Beatrice Roberts; 4 Gorffennaf 1909 – 26 Medi 1995), ganwyd yn Buenos Aires i rieni Cymreig. 

 Bywgraffiad 
Symudodd i Lundain pan oedd yn ferch ifanc, gan astudio yn yr Ysgol Ganolog Celf a Chreft (rhan o Goleg Canolog Celf a Dylunio Sant Martin erbyn hyn). Ymsefydlodd yng Nghymru yn yr 1940au, lle bu'n paentio, a chyhoeddwyd ei barddoniaeth gan wasg Faber and Faber (Poems (1944), Gods with stainless ears: a heroic poem (1951)).

Priododd â'r bardd Keidrych Rhys yn Llansteffan, a bu'n byw, mewn tlodi i gymharu a beth arferai gydag, yn Llanybri; pentref a'i anfarwolwyd yn "Poem from Llanybri". Roedd y gerdd wedi ei chyfeirio at fardd arall, Alun Lewis, a chyfaddefodd Roberts ei bod wedi ei denu ato.

Cafodd Roberts a Rhys ddau o blant (merch, Angharad, yn Ebrill 1945, a mab, Prydein, yn Rhagfyr 1946) cyn ysgaru ym 1949.

Cysegrwyd The White Goddess i Roberts gan Robert Graves yn yr argraffiad cyntaf, a chyflenwodd hi'r rhan helaeth o'r deunydd Cymreig a ddefnyddwyd ganddo.

Gwaith llên oedd The Endeavour: Captain Cook's first voyage to Australia (1954). Yn ei bywyd wyr, gwadodd ei gwaith, a gwrthododd adael iddo gael ei ail-argraffu. Wedi ei marwolaeth, cyhoeddwyd casgliad o'i cherddi gan Seren Books, ond gorfodwyd hwy i'w dynnu yn ôl oherwydd problemau cyfreithiol gydag ystad Roberts. Cyhoeddwyd cyfrol arall o Collected Poems wedi hir aros, yn 2006 gan Carcanet, a olygwyd gan Patrick McGuinness.Collected Poems A volume of miscellaneous prose – diaries from her time in Llanybri, correspondence with Robert Graves, memoirs of the Sitwells and T. S. Eliot, an essay on "village dialect" and short stories – appeared in 2008. An unpublished novel, Nesta, written in 1944, is apparently lost (but see TLS article of 6 Tachwedd 2009, which indicates that it has been discovered.  One of our greatest war poets: Lynette Roberts)

 Gweithiau 
1942 - Dwy gerdd: 'To a Welsh woman' a 'The circle of C' yn Caseg broadsheets of Welsh poetry rhif.4 (Caseg Press)
1944 - [Eight poems in] Modern Welsh Poetry; gol. Keidrych Rees (Faber & Faber)
1944 - Poems (Faber & Faber)
1944 - An introduction to village dialect: with seven stories (The Druid Press)
1951 - Gods with stainless ears: a heroic poem (Faber & Faber)
1954 - The Endeavour: Captain Cook’s first voyage to Australia (Peter Owen)
1983 - 'Parts of an autobiography', Poetry Wales, 19, rhif.2, pp. 30–50
2005 - 'A South American childhood' [adysgrif sgwrs radio], New Welsh Review, Rhif 70 (Gaeaf 2005)
2005 - Collected poems; gol. Patrick McGuinness (Carcanet) ISBN 1857548426
2008 - Diaries, letters and recollections; gol. gyda cyflwyniad gan Patrick McGuinness (Carcanet) ISBN 1857548566

 Llyfryddiaeth 
'Obituary: Lynette Roberts', The Times, 4 Hydref, 1995, tud.1
'Obituary: Lynette Roberts', The Daily Telegraph, 16 Tachwedd, 1995, tud.33
Bainbridge, Charles, 'Around my cradled self' [adolygiad o Collected Poems], The Guardian, Mawrth 11, 2006, tud.18
Conran, Anthony, 'Lynette Roberts, 1909-1995, and In Memoriam', Poetry Wales, 31, rhif.3, (1996), tud.3–4
Conran, Anthony, 'Lynette Roberts: the Lyric Pieces', Poetry Wales, 19, no.2 (1983), 125-133
Conran, Anthony, 'Lynette Roberts: War Poet', Anglo-Welsh Review, 65, (1979), 50-62. Cyhoeddwyd hefyd ar tud.188–200, The Cost of strangeness: essays on the English poets of Wales (Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer, 1982 ISBN 0850888654)
Jarvis, Matthew, 'Lynette Roberts,Collected Poems''' [adolygiad], Poetry Wales, 42, rif.1, (Haf 2006), 35–38
Lewis, Alun, 'Correspondence with Lynette Roberts and Keidrych Rees', Wales,VIII, no.28 (Chwefror/Mawrth 1948), 410–431
Lloyd, Joanna, 'The Correspondence between Lynette Roberts and Robert Graves, 1943–1952', Poetry Wales, 19, Rhif.2, (1983), 51–124
Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen, 'Insights from an outsider' [adolygiad o Collected Poems], Planet: the Welsh International, Rhifyn 176
McGuinness, Patrick, 'The Poetry of Lynette Roberts', PN Review, 32, Rhifyn 2 [Rhif 166] (Tachwedd-Rhagfyr 2005), 52-59
Matthews, Steven, 'I think alone' [review of Collected Poems], Poetry Review, 96, Rhif.1 (Gwanwyn 2006)
Pikoulis, John, 'Awen warcheidiol: mae cerddi anarferol Lynette Roberts yn ei gosod ymhlith y goreuon o'r llenorion Eingl-Gymreig', Barn 394 (1995), 44-5
Pikoulis, John, '[Introduction to] Six Poems by Lynette Roberts', Poetry Wales, 34, Rhif.2 (Hydref 1998), p. 3
Pikoulis, John, 'Lynette Roberts and Alun Lewis', Poetry Wales, 19, Rhif.2, (1983) tud.9-29
Pikoulis, John, 'Obituary: Lynette Roberts', The Guardian, 13 Hydref 1995, tud.117
Skoulding, Zoe, 'Review of Lynette Roberts-Collected Poems', Poetry Wales, 41, tud.4, (Gwanwyn 2006), 5-7
Stephens, Meic, 'Obituary: Lynette Roberts', The Independent, 28 Medi, 1995, tud.18
Wheale, Nigel, 'Beyond the Trauma Stratus: Lynette Roberts' Gods with Stainless Ears and the Post-War Cultural Landscape', Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays, 3, (1997), 98-117
Wheale, Nigel, 'Lynette Roberts: Legend and Form in the 1940s', Critical Quarterly, 36, Rhif. 3 (Hydref 1994), 4–19

 Cyfeiriadau 

 Dolenni allanol 
Lynette Roberts at Carcanet Press (includes text of various reviews of the Collected Poems'')
"Lynette Roberts - our greatest female war poet?", BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, 30 Mawrth 2006  (Audio archive. Adalwyd 22 Mawrth 2008)
Patrick McGuinness, 'Rediscovering a Modernist Classic: Lynette Roberts (1909-1995)', Transcript: European internet review of books and writing, no.22 
Alan Tucker, Review essay of Collected poems (Carcanet, 2005) in FlashPoint, Spring 2006, Web Issue 8
John Wilkinson, 'The Brain's Tent: Lynette Robert's Collected Poems''', (Boston Review'', Sept/Oct 2006) 

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