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A Penguin Classic
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 sixth-century Brythonic bard; and a legendary collective project spanning the centuries up to The Book of Taliesin's compilation in fourteenth-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.
A Penguin Classic
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 sixth-century Brythonic bard; and a legendary collective project spanning the centuries up to The Book of Taliesin's compilation in fourteenth-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.
NEW TRANSLATION that will do the Chief of Bards justice, by Welsh poets Gwyneth Lewis (former National Poet of Wales) and Rowan Williams (former Archbishop of Canterbury).
LEGENDARY AUTHOR: Taliesin is something of a mythological figure in Welsh culture; the Hanes Taliesin, originally part of the Welsh epic Mabinogion, tells the story of how he attained infinite wisdom.
NAMESAKE OF THE FAMED WISCONSIN ESTATE OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, whose grandparents were Welsh.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Lyrik & Dramatik |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 304 |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780141396934 |
| ISBN-10: | 0141396938 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: |
Williams, Rowan
Lewis, Gwyneth |
| Solist: | Lewis, Gwyneth |
| Übersetzung: |
Lewis, Gwyneth
Williams, Rowan |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Random House LLC |
| Maße: | 198 x 131 x 20 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Rowan Williams |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 08.09.2020 |
| Gewicht: | 0,227 kg |
NEW TRANSLATION that will do the Chief of Bards justice, by Welsh poets Gwyneth Lewis (former National Poet of Wales) and Rowan Williams (former Archbishop of Canterbury).
LEGENDARY AUTHOR: Taliesin is something of a mythological figure in Welsh culture; the Hanes Taliesin, originally part of the Welsh epic Mabinogion, tells the story of how he attained infinite wisdom.
NAMESAKE OF THE FAMED WISCONSIN ESTATE OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, whose grandparents were Welsh.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Lyrik & Dramatik |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 304 |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780141396934 |
| ISBN-10: | 0141396938 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: |
Williams, Rowan
Lewis, Gwyneth |
| Solist: | Lewis, Gwyneth |
| Übersetzung: |
Lewis, Gwyneth
Williams, Rowan |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Random House LLC |
| Maße: | 198 x 131 x 20 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Rowan Williams |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 08.09.2020 |
| Gewicht: | 0,227 kg |
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