The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse (1962), edited by Thomas Parry, is an anthology of Welsh-language poetry stretching from Aneirin in the 6th century to Bobi Jones in the 20th.
[7] Preference is given to poems in the traditional meters, in keeping with the introduction's stress on the continuity of Welsh poetry through the centuries, though the editor also includes hymns, lyrics and other works in the free metres.
[8] Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson, writing in The Modern Language Review, welcomed its appearance as long overdue and congratulated Oxford University Press on its choice of Thomas Parry, an eminent Celticist and an accomplished poet in his own right, as editor.
[9] Édouard Bachellery, in the journal Études Celtiques, likewise acknowledged Parry to be a man of taste and a great scholar, and he considered the book's publication an event of importance.
[10] Parry has since been criticised for including only one woman poet, Ann Griffiths, if dubious attributions to women are left aside,[11] and for insufficiently representing the overtly Christian strand in Welsh verse.