The Taliesin Tradition
Author: Emyr Humphreys
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Published: 2000
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Author: Emyr Humphreys
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Published: 2000
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rowan Williams
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2019-06-27
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0141396946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
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Published: 1977*
Total Pages: 6
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 576
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Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Published: 2002-04
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780892818693
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaliesin, 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: Marion Glasscoe
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780859915588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterdisciplinary studies on medieval mystics and their cultural background.
Author: Siân Echard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-09-10
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780521621267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArthurian literature is a popular field, but most of the published work focuses on the vernacular tradition. This book, uniquely, looks at Latin Arthurian works. Geoffrey of Monmouth is treated at length and this is the first book to put him in a context which includes other Latin histories, monastic chronicles, saints' lives and other Latin prose Arthurian narratives. Like Geoffrey's works, most can be associated with the Angevin court of Henry II and by placing these works against the court background, this book both introduces a new set of texts into the Arthurian canon and suggests a way to understand their place in that tradition. The unfamiliar works are summarized for the reader, and there are extensive quotations, with translations, throughout. The result is a thorough exploration of Latin Arthurian narrative in the foundational period for the Arthurian tradition.
Author: William Forbes Skene
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 564
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