The Song of Taliesin
Title | The Song of Taliesin PDF eBook |
Author | John Matthews |
Publisher | Quest Books |
Total Pages | 254 |
Release | 2001-10-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780835608022 |
Presents a collection of tales in the style of the half-mythical, half-historical bard Taliesin.
The Book of Taliesin
Title | The Book of Taliesin PDF eBook |
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.
Taliesin
Title | Taliesin PDF eBook |
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.
The Song of Taliesin
Title | The Song of Taliesin PDF eBook |
Author | John Matthews |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781855381148 |
Legendary Poems from the Book of Taliesin
Title | Legendary Poems from the Book of Taliesin PDF eBook |
Author | Marged Haycock |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 576 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Book of Taliesin |
ISBN |
The Four Ancient Books of Wales Containing the Cymric Poems Attributed to the Bards of the Sixth Century
Title | The Four Ancient Books of Wales Containing the Cymric Poems Attributed to the Bards of the Sixth Century PDF eBook |
Author | William Forbes Skene |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 564 |
Release | 1868 |
Genre | Tales |
ISBN |
The Poems of Taliesin
Title | The Poems of Taliesin PDF eBook |
Author | Taliesin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Welsh literature |
ISBN |