Evelyn ('Lynette') Beatrice Roberts (4 July 1909 – 26 September 1995) was a Welsh poet and a writer. Her poems were about war, landscape, and life in the small Welsh village where she lived. She published two poetry collections: Poems (1944) and Gods with Stainless Ears: A Heroic Poem (1951). Roberts's work was admired by poets: T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Robert Graves. In later life, Roberts had a mental breakdown and stopped publishing. Her work was largely forgotten for the remainder of her life. She died in 1995 relatively unknown.
You can find people similar to Lynette Roberts by visiting our lists 20th-century Welsh women writers and 20th-century British women writers.
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Date of birth | 4 July 1909
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Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Date of death | 26 September 1995
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Age | 86 (age at death)
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Place of death | Ferryside, Carmarthenshire
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