Hughes (1918–2002) from the Golden Head Press (Cambridge, 1963) ; and two editions including other poems from the Grongar Press (Llandeilo, 1977, 2003) with woodcuts by John Petts. The poem's most devoted artistic admirer has been John Piper, who described it as “one of the best topographical poems in existence because it is so visual.” He first painted the hill in 1942 and the oil was subsequently issued as a coloured print. Later he produced three lithographs for the edition issued by the Stourton Press (Hackney, 1982). This used the much rarer original version in pindarics. The Piper print was also redeployed as the CD cover of a setting of Dyer's words by the Welsh composer Alun Hoddinott, who knew the area well in his youth. In 1998 he took four stanzas from the pindaric version of the poem and set them for baritone and string quartet with piano as “Grongar Hill” (Op.168). He also set other sections in 2006 for soprano, baritone and four hands at the piano, titling it “Towy Landscape” (Op. 190). The work is in the form of a dramatic ‘scena’ which is subdivided into recitative and aria-like sections. References Mountains and hills of Carmarthenshire 1726 poems English poems