The Misfortunes of Elphin, and Rhododaphne ... - Couverture souple

Peacock, Thomas Love; Bateman, George Edward

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1241241813 ISBN 13 : 9781241241810

Editeur : British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011

Synopsis

Title: The misfortunes of Elphin, and Rhododaphne ... With an introduction by George Saintsbury.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Peacock, Thomas Love.; Bateman, George Edward; 1897. pp. xxii, 261: illus. 20 cm. 012621.h.29.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Misfortunes of Elphin occupies a curious position among Peacock sbooks. I myself prefer it to almost all of them, and I know some others who think with me; but it has been by no means a general favourite, though every one, I think, has acknowledged the merit of the War Song of Dinas Vawr. It is not difficult to account for this comparative want of popularity. The scenery and subject are remote; and the shortness of the book does not give the author time to make them familiar. The poetry is of a stamp at least as unfamiliar, and still more difficult to bring home to English readers; for high as Welsh poetry stands by consent even of those who do not invariably admire Celtic things, its whole scheme, imagery, language and prosody appear to be even more difficult to transplant into English than the vague and doubtful fragments of Gaelic, and the abundant and genuine stores of I rish. But I should imagine that the chief stumbling-blocks have been, first, the pervading irony of the thing, and, secondly, the additional offence of ironic treatment of a romantic subject. It must be added, too, that, with one exception.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: British Library, Historical Print Editions
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1241241813
• ISBN 13: 9781241241810
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 356
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