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. 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 An unpublished novel, *Nesta*, written in 1944, is apparently lost (but see TLS article of 6 Tachwedd 2009, which indicates that it has been discovered.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.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;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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