Author: Kenneth Jackson
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141935235
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides a unique insight into the minds and literature of the Celtic people. It is a literature dominated by a deep sense of wonder, wild inventiveness and a profound sense of the uncanny, in which the natural world and the power of the individual spirit are celebrated with astonishing imaginative force. Skifully arranged by theme, from the hero-tales of Cú Chulainn, Bardic poetry and elegies, to the sensitive and intimate writings of early Celtic Christianity, this anthology provides a fascinating insight into a deeply creative literary tradition.
A Celtic Miscellany
Author: Kenneth Jackson
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141935235
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides a unique insight into the minds and literature of the Celtic people. It is a literature dominated by a deep sense of wonder, wild inventiveness and a profound sense of the uncanny, in which the natural world and the power of the individual spirit are celebrated with astonishing imaginative force. Skifully arranged by theme, from the hero-tales of Cú Chulainn, Bardic poetry and elegies, to the sensitive and intimate writings of early Celtic Christianity, this anthology provides a fascinating insight into a deeply creative literary tradition.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141935235
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides a unique insight into the minds and literature of the Celtic people. It is a literature dominated by a deep sense of wonder, wild inventiveness and a profound sense of the uncanny, in which the natural world and the power of the individual spirit are celebrated with astonishing imaginative force. Skifully arranged by theme, from the hero-tales of Cú Chulainn, Bardic poetry and elegies, to the sensitive and intimate writings of early Celtic Christianity, this anthology provides a fascinating insight into a deeply creative literary tradition.
A Change in the Cabinet
Author: Hilaire Belloc
Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Scotland in the Time of Queen Mary
Author: Peter Hume Brown
Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Bretons at Home
Author: Frances Marion Gostling
Publisher:
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Category : Brittany (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brittany (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Records and Reminiscences, Personl and General
Author: Francis Cowley Burnand
Publisher:
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Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Old Testament History ...
Author: George Woosung Wade
Publisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
The Column of Dust
Author: Evelyn Underhill
Publisher: London, Methuen & Company [1909]
ISBN:
Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher: London, Methuen & Company [1909]
ISBN:
Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A royal indiscretion
A Wanderer in Paris
Author: Edward Verrall Lucas
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description