The book of Taliesin : poems of warfare and praise in an enchanted Britain
2020
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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.
Main title:
The book of Taliesin : poems of warfare and praise in an enchanted Britain / translated by Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan Williams.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2020.London : Penguin Classics, 2020.
Collation:
304 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2019.Translated from the Welsh.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780141396934 (pbk)
Dewey class:
891.6611
Language:
EnglishWelsh
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BRN:
2346215