Williams, Waldo, 1904-1971

Waldo Williams (1904-1971); Welsh poet and nationalist; pacifist and war resister; conscientious objector to World War II; became a Quaker in 1953; was a war-tax resister, for which he was imprisoned; b. in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales; graduated from University College of Wales; later trained as a teacher, and taught at schools in Wales and England; his poetry was inspired by the Welsh landscape, people and their communal life.

Waldo Williams, poet, was born in 1904 in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. He attended Narberth Grammar School and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth where he read English. He was a pacifist and a supporter of Plaid Cymru and is considered to be one of the most original poets of the 20th century. He died in 1971.

For further biographical information consult The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales .