Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance - Couverture souple

Squire, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1444656406 ISBN 13 : 9781444656404

Editeur : Obscure Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book is what its authors believes to be the only attempt yet made to put the English reader into possession, in clear, compact, and what it is hoped may prove agreeable, form, of the mythical, legendary, and poetic traditions of the early inhabitants of our islands who have left us written records - the Gaelic and the British Celts. It is true that admirable translations and paraphrases of much of Gaelic mythical saga have been recently published, and that Lady Charlotte Guest’s translation of the Mabinogion has been placed within the reach of the least wealthy reader. But these books not merely each cover a portion only of the whole ground, but, in addition, contain little elucidatory matter. Their characters stand isolated and unexplained and the details that would explain them must be sought for with considerable trouble in the lectures and essays of scholars to learned societies. The reader to whom this literature is entirely new is introduced, as it were, to numerous people of whose antecedents he knows nothing; and the effect is often disconcerting enough to make him lay down the volume in despair. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book is what its author believes to be the only attempt yet made to put theE nglish reader into possession, in clear, compact, and what it is hoped may prove agreeable, form, of the mythical, legendary, and poetic traditions of the earliest inhabitants of our islands who have left us written records the Gaelic and theB ritish Celts. It is true that admirable translations and paraphrases of much of Gaelic mythical saga have been recently published, and that Lady Charlotte Guest stranslation of theM abinogion has been placed within the reach of the least wealthy reader. But these books not merely each cover a portion only of the whole ground, but, in addition, contain little elucidatory matter. Their characters stand isolated and unexplained; and the details that would explain them must be sought for with considerable trouble in the lectures and essays of scholars to learned societies. The reader to whom this literature is entirely new is introduced, as it were, to numerous people of whose antecedents he knows nothing; and the effect is often disconcerting enough to make him lay down the volume in despair. But here he will at last make the formal acquaintance of all the chief characters of Celtic myth: of the Gaelic gods and the giants against whom they struggled; of the Champions of the Red Branch of Ulster, heroes of a martial epopee almost worthy to be placed beside the tale ofT roy divine ;and ofF inn and his Fenians.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Obscure Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1444656406
• ISBN 13: 9781444656404
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 510
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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