Early Welsh Gnomic and Nature Poetry
Among the most enigmatic and fascinating of early Welsh poems are the sequences of stanzas commonly categorized as gnomic. In their most typical form they juxtapose vivid natural description with generalisations about the physical world and about human life, combining an evident delight in weather and the changing seasons, landscapes and seascapes, and birds, beasts and plants with a serious and often witty concern for the moral and practical aspects of daily life. The origin and function of these stanzas remains a puzzle; some may be associated with particular situations in narratives now lost, but as a whole they appear to have developed at…
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- ISBN: 978-1-907322-58-7
- EAN: 9781907322587
- Produktnummer: 12695136
- Verlag: Modern Humanities Research Association
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D1.4 cm 448 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 448
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