Huw Owen Williams who wrote as Huw Menai, was a Welsh

Welsh people

The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...

 poet, a Welsh-language speaker who nevertheless wrote only in the English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

. His poems were among the first classic works to be republished as a result of a 2004 incentive on the part of the Welsh Assembly Government

Welsh Assembly Government

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Huw Menai was educated at the Ragged School

Ragged school

Ragged Schools were charitable schools dedicated to the free education of destitute children in 19th century England. The schools were developed in working class districts of the rapidly expanding industrial towns...

in Caernarvon. He married Anne Jones; they had 3 sons and 5 daughters.

Works

• Through the Upcast Shaft (1920)
• The Passing of Guto (1927)
• Back in Return (1933)
• The Simple Vision (1945)