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It's not often I get to wax hyperbolic about something with an intrinsic worthwhile-ness to it, especially something Welsh. Having under the belt the standard issue years of Welsh Education, comprising vague threats of crippling yearning for home were I ever to leave the country (called for the uninitiated hiraeth), language lessons-by-rote with no attempt by the teacher to instill anything close to understanding, and stealthy practising until I could repeat Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch with sufficient prowess to impress someone I have yet to meet, the value others, keen to keep our national "brand" alive and if not neck-and-neck with the success of the Irish, at least on the same strip of cinder, placed on Welshness has soured for me the pleasure of simply being from Wales.

However, the fine chaps at Parthian Books, along with some sterling  fellows at The Welsh Books Council, have done something of which I can say makes me proud to be linked, even by the chance serendipity of birth, to the land which produced poet, wanderer and super tramp, W.H. Davies. This endeavour is called the Library of Wales. I'll let you visit the website to find out more, but I can assure you that it is worth your while. But the point of all t

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W. H. Davies

William's grandpa originally came from Cornwall, and he used to work as a captain on a ship. He was also connected to a well-known British actor named Sir Henry Irving, who they called Cousin Brodribb in their family. William's grandma used to talk about Irving as the cousin who brought shame to their family.

Around , the family moved to Raglan Street in Newport and later to Upper Lewis Street. William went to Temple School first, and then in , he started going to Alexandra Road School. The following year, when he was just a young lad, he and some schoolmates got into trouble for stealing handbags. They gave him a punishment of twelve strokes of the birch. In , at the age of 14, he wrote his first poem called "Death".

In his book Poet's Pilgrimage, which he wrote in , Davies remembered that when he was 14, he was supposed to sit with his grandfather as he was dying. However, he got so caught up in reading a thrilling adventure book that he missed the moment when his grandfather passed away.

From Troublemaker to Tramp

After finishing school, Davies got a job working with iron. Then, in November , his grandmother arranged for him to learn how to make picture frames which he did for around five years. But, Davies didn't like that work at