The Hunting of the Snark (musical) The Hunting of the Snark (musical) The Hunting of the Snark is a musical based on Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark", written by composer Mike Batt. The musical began life in 1984 as a costumed concert with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, conducted by Mike Batt and starring Paul Jones as the Baker and Christopher Casenove as the narrator. It was created as a concept album in 1986 but withheld from sale after a dispute with the record label, CBS (Sony). The recording featured Roger Daltrey, Art Garfunkel, John Gielgud, Stephane Grappelli, George Harrison, John
The Wind (poem) include a close and warmly-appreciative description of a "llatai", even when, as is often the case in Dafydd's poems, he is describing nature in one of its harsher aspects. The careering course of the wind is embodied in the headlong pace of the poem. Rachel Bromwich called "The Wind" one of "the outstanding expressions of Dafydd's wonder and awe at the mysteries of the cosmic forces", but pointed out that in the end Dafydd curbs this force to act as a love-messenger to Morfudd. The poet Gwyneth Lewis sees the poem as "a hymn to the havoc that art can