Like all other Archdruids, Crwys had himself won several major prizes at the National Eisteddfod. He was a three-time winner of the crown: at Colwyn Bay in 1910, at Carmarthen in 1911, and at Corwen in 1919. A cast bronze bust in honour of the poet is on display at Carmarthen Castle.
Crwys's work tended to idealise life in rural Wales.[2] His winning poem at the 1911 eisteddfod praised the "common people of Wales".[3] English translations of his work appear in several anthologies.[4][5]
Works
Ednyfed Fychan (1910). Inspired by the life of Ednyfed Fychan.
Dysgub y Dail
Melin Trefin
Cerddi Crwys (1920)
Cerddi Newydd Crwys (1924)
A brief history of Rehoboth Congregational Church, Bryn-mawr, from 1643 to 1927 (1927)
^Russell Davies (2018). Sex, Sects and Society: 'Pain and Pleasure': A Social History of Wales and the Welsh, 1870-1945. University of Wales Press. p. 399. ISBN9781786832146.