Saunders Lewis

Gruffydd and Saunders Lewis - who was continuing to incense the BBC by publicly alleging it was "seeking the destruction of the Welsh language". '" Lewis sought to cast Welshness into a new context wrote Dr. J.

Saunders Lewis (born John Saunders Lewis) (15 October 1893 – 1 September 1985) was a Welsh poet dramatist historian literary critic and political activist. He was a prominent Welsh nationalist and a founder of the Welsh National Party (later known as Plaid Cymru). Lewis was a 1970 Nobel nominee for literature and in 2005 was 10th in a BBC Wales poll to name Wales' greatest-ever person.