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- Euros Bowen (12 September 1904 – 2 April 1988) was a Welsh language poet and priest. Born in Treorchy, and a brother of the poet Geraint Bowen, he was educated at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, and later at the University of Wales (initially at University College, Aberystwyth before transferring to University College, Swansea), Mansfield College, Oxford and St Catherine's College, Oxford. Although initially he intended to become a Nonconformist minister, he converted to Anglicanism as a student, and was ordained as a priest of the Church in Wales, serving 1934-38 as curate of Wrexham, then as rector of Llanuwchllyn with Llangywer, on the shore of Lake Bala in Merionethshire, from which parishes he retired in 1973. He spent the remainder of his life in Wrexham. Euros Bowen began writing poetry in earnest in 1947, during the heavy winter which left him snowbound in his rectory. In many ways a "late starter", for he did not publish his first volume of poetry until he was in his early 50s, he at once became notable for the way in which he developed the traditional metres of Welsh poetry. Compared by some with the writing of T. Gwynn Jones, who was also seen as a moderniser of Welsh prosody, Bowen's early work (collected in Cerddi - Poems - 1957) is dense with layered imagery, and whilst later on he moved into free verse, it is actually difficult to chart his development in a linear way. Although the work in his first book is rich with form and form experiment, his second; Cerddi Rhydd (Free Verses, published 1961) dispenses with all formal devices and is made up of prose proems in the manner of Rimbaud. Not only was Bowen responsible for bringing into Welsh poetry influences from mainland Europe which effectively revolutionised the medium - in this he is in many ways to Welsh literature what T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were to English - he is also of considerable interest in British poetry because his work with prose poems anticipates that of Geoffrey Hill (in Mercian Hymns) by a clear decade. Although there are some skeins in his work which are reminiscent of Symbolism (he translated a selection of French Symbolist poets into Welsh) and of a kind of Imagism, Bowen always thought of himself as a and believed the images in his poems communicated as signs. Comparable in stature with his fellow priest-poet R. S. Thomas, Bowen is, nevertheless, considerably more celebratory in tone, and the transformations in nature, as he sees them, often appear as communicating a personal revelation. In the year after he retired Bowen published a selection of his poems, which included not only the Welsh-language originals but parallel English versions in verse His poems have also been translated by and the American , among others. Euros Bowen won the bardic Crown at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1948 for O'r Dwyrain, and again in 1950 for Difodiant. He edited the literary journal, Y Fflam, 1946–1952. (en)
- Euros Bowen (1904ko irailaren 12a - 1988ko apirilaren 2a) galestar poeta izan zen. Geraint Bowen poetaren anaia zen. Treorcikoa izanda Caerfyrddingo eskola presbiterianoan ikasi zuen. Ondoren Galesko Unibertsitatean eta Oxfordeko Unibertsitatean ikasten jarraitu zuen. Artzain anglikano ordenatu zen eta Llanuwchllyngo errektorea izan zen . 1948an Galesko Eisteddfod Nazionaleko koro bardikoa irabazi zuen eta 1950ean presidentetza. (eu)
- Euros Bowen (1904-1988) fue un poeta de la lengua galesa. Fue el hermano del poeta . Nacido en Treorchy en el valle Rhondda, asistió al Colegio Presbiteriano en Carmarthen y después a la Universidad de Gales y la Universidad de Oxford. Inicialmente se hizo clérigo anglicano en y eventualmente se hizo Rector de Llanuwchllyn en Merionethshire. Se jubiló en Wrexham. Ganó la Corona Bardo en la en 1948 por O'r Dwyrain y la Silla en 1950 por Difodiant. Dirigió la revista literaria Y Fflam entre 1946 y 1952. (es)
- Euros Bowen (1904-1988) est un poète britannique de langue galloise. Il était le frère du poète Geraint Bowen. Né à Treorchy, dans la vallée de Rhondda, il a fréquenté le Presbyterian College de Carmarthen, puis l'université du Pays de Galles et l'université d'Oxford. Il a d'abord été membre du clergé anglican à Llangywer, puis est devenu recteur de Llanuwchllyn dans le Merionethshire. Il s'est retiré à Wrexham. Il a remporté la Bard Crown au Eisteddfod Genedlaethol en 1948 pour O'r Dwyrain et de même en 1950 pour Difodiant. Il a édité le magazine littéraire Y Fflam entre 1946 et 1952. (fr)
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- Euros Bowen (1904ko irailaren 12a - 1988ko apirilaren 2a) galestar poeta izan zen. Geraint Bowen poetaren anaia zen. Treorcikoa izanda Caerfyrddingo eskola presbiterianoan ikasi zuen. Ondoren Galesko Unibertsitatean eta Oxfordeko Unibertsitatean ikasten jarraitu zuen. Artzain anglikano ordenatu zen eta Llanuwchllyngo errektorea izan zen . 1948an Galesko Eisteddfod Nazionaleko koro bardikoa irabazi zuen eta 1950ean presidentetza. (eu)
- Euros Bowen (1904-1988) fue un poeta de la lengua galesa. Fue el hermano del poeta . Nacido en Treorchy en el valle Rhondda, asistió al Colegio Presbiteriano en Carmarthen y después a la Universidad de Gales y la Universidad de Oxford. Inicialmente se hizo clérigo anglicano en y eventualmente se hizo Rector de Llanuwchllyn en Merionethshire. Se jubiló en Wrexham. Ganó la Corona Bardo en la en 1948 por O'r Dwyrain y la Silla en 1950 por Difodiant. Dirigió la revista literaria Y Fflam entre 1946 y 1952. (es)
- Euros Bowen (1904-1988) est un poète britannique de langue galloise. Il était le frère du poète Geraint Bowen. Né à Treorchy, dans la vallée de Rhondda, il a fréquenté le Presbyterian College de Carmarthen, puis l'université du Pays de Galles et l'université d'Oxford. Il a d'abord été membre du clergé anglican à Llangywer, puis est devenu recteur de Llanuwchllyn dans le Merionethshire. Il s'est retiré à Wrexham. Il a remporté la Bard Crown au Eisteddfod Genedlaethol en 1948 pour O'r Dwyrain et de même en 1950 pour Difodiant. Il a édité le magazine littéraire Y Fflam entre 1946 et 1952. (fr)
- Euros Bowen (12 September 1904 – 2 April 1988) was a Welsh language poet and priest. Born in Treorchy, and a brother of the poet Geraint Bowen, he was educated at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, and later at the University of Wales (initially at University College, Aberystwyth before transferring to University College, Swansea), Mansfield College, Oxford and St Catherine's College, Oxford. Although initially he intended to become a Nonconformist minister, he converted to Anglicanism as a student, and was ordained as a priest of the Church in Wales, serving 1934-38 as curate of Wrexham, then as rector of Llanuwchllyn with Llangywer, on the shore of Lake Bala in Merionethshire, from which parishes he retired in 1973. He spent the remainder of his life in Wrexham. (en)
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