Abstract
Dr John Davies of Mallwyd: Welsh Renaissance Scholar, ed. Ceri Davies (Cardiff: U. of Wales P., 2004; pp. 286. £35). ‘The one outstanding Plato of our language’ was how John Davies's friend and fellow-scholar, Rowland Vaughan of Caer-gai, rightly categorised him. His acclaim was echoed by Davies's twentieth-century counterpart, John Morris Jones, who pronounced that his ‘analysis of the modern literary language is final; he has left to his successors only the correction and amplification of detail’. The volume under review brings within its scope all the most important aspects of John Davies's achievements: his masterly scriptural translations and original writings; his Grammar of the Welsh language and his Latin-Welsh Dictionary (both written in Latin); his interest in and generosity to poets and writers; and, less well known and more surprising, perhaps, his skill and accomplishments as an architect and builder. Its ten chapters consider in detail and depth...
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