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Rowan Williams

The Book of Taliesin

Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain

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The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the first time in more than 100 years by two of its country's foremost poetsA Penguin ClassicTennyson 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 sixth-century Brythonic bard; and a legendary collective project spanning the centuries up to The B… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Lewis, Gwyneth, MFPHM
  • ISBN: 978-0-14-139693-4
  • EAN: 9780141396934
  • Produktnummer: 27600644
  • Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Masse: H13.0 cm x B19.7 cm x D2.5 cm 228 g
  • Gewicht: 228
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

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Taliesin lived during the sixth century and is considered one of the greatest Welsh poets. He was a court bard for three kings, most notably King Urien of Rheged. Gwyneth Lewis (translator) is an award-winning poet and was the National Poet of Wales from 2005 to 2006. Her books of poetry in Welsh and English include Chaotic Angels, Sparrow Tree, and Treiglo (Mutating) and, in prose, The Meat Tree: New Stories from the Mabinogion. She teaches at Middlebury College.Rowan Williams (translator) is the former Archbishop of Canterbury and currently Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. The author of many books from The Wound of Knowledge to The Tragic Imagination, he has published several poetry collections and is a contributor to the New Statesman.

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