Aberglasney: ‘an enigmatic cloister range’¹

Abstract

The site and surroundings of Aberglasney deserve what little attention they have attracted outside the Principality³ by virtue of having been the home of the poet and painter John Dyer (1699–1757). In neither art was he particularly accomplished, but what talent he had was poetic, and Wordsworth admired him. His topographical poems occupy an important niche in the annals of the eighteenth century’s growing absorption in country life and in representing the experience of rural landscape.

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John Dixon Hunt

The division of our work was largely that Samuelsprovided Welsh archival and library materialsfor Hunt to involve in the analysisof the site and its context in garden history. Our research is clearly in its preliminary stages, with this paper being an initial report upon continuing investigations.