Legendary Poems from the Book of Taliesin
Author | : Marged Haycock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Book of Taliesin |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Marged Haycock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Book of Taliesin |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Gwenogvryn Evans |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Welsh poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Forbes Skene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : Tales |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rowan Williams |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-06-27 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141396946 |
The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the first time in over 100 years by two of its country's foremost poets Tennyson portrayed him, and wrote at least one poem under his name. Robert Graves was fascinated by what he saw as his work's connection to a lost world of deeply buried folkloric memory. He is a shapeshifter; a seer; a chronicler of battles fought, by sword and with magic, between the ancient kingdoms of the British Isles; a bridge between old Welsh mythologies and the new Christian theology; a 6th-century Brythonic bard; and a legendary collective project spanning the centuries up to The Book of Taliesin's compilation in 14th-century North Wales. He is, above all, no single 'he'. The figure of Taliesin is a mystery. But of the variety and quality of the poems written under his sign, of their power as exemplars of the force of ecstatic poetic imagination, and of the fascinating window they offer us onto a strange and visionary world, there can be no question. In the first volume to gather all of the poems from The Book of Taliesin since 1915, Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan Williams's accessible translation makes these outrageous, arrogant, stumbling and joyful poems available to a new generation of readers.
Author | : Taliesin |
Publisher | : Llanerch Publishers |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Taliesin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Welsh literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Matthews |
Publisher | : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2002-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780892818693 |
Taliesin, Chief Bard of Britain and Celtic shaman, was a historical figure who lived in Wales during the latter half of the sixth century. His verse is established as a direct precursor to the Arthurian Legends--and Taliesin himself, is said to be the direct forebear to Merlin. The author presents completely new translations of Taliesin's major poems in their entirety, uncovering the meanings behind these great works for the first time.
Author | : Marged Haycock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Book of Taliesin |
ISBN | : 9780955718274 |
Author | : John Gwenogvryn Evans |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Names, Geographical |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nerys Ann Jones |
Publisher | : MHRA |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2019-07-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1781889082 |
For over a thousand years, Arthur has had widespread appeal and influence like no other literary character or historical figure. Yet, despite the efforts of modern scholars, the earliest references to Arthurian characters are still shrouded in uncertainty. They are mostly found in poetic texts scattered throughout the four great compilations of early and medieval Welsh literature produced between 1250 and 1350. Whilst some are thought to predate their manuscript sources by several centuries, many of these poems are notoriously difficult to date. None of them are narrative in nature and very few focus solely on Arthurian material but they are characterised by an allusiveness which would have been appreciated by their intended audiences in the courts of princes and noblemen the length and breadth of Wales. They portray Arthur in a variety of roles: as a great leader of armies, a warrior with extraordinary powers, slayer of magical creatures, rescuer of prisoners from the Otherworld, a poet and the subject of prophecy. They also testify to the possibility of lost tales about him, his father, Uthr, his son, Llachau, his wife, Gwenhwyfar, and one of his companions, Cai, and associate him with a wide array of both legendary and historical figures. Arthur in Early Welsh Poetry, the fourth volume in the MHRA Library of Medieval Welsh Literature series, provides discussion of each of the references to Arthurian characters in early Welsh poetic sources together with an image from the earliest manuscript, a transliteration, a comprehensive edition, a translation (where possible) and a word-list. The nine most significant texts are interpreted in more detail with commentary on metrical, linguistic and stylistic features.