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The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the first time in over 100 years by two of its country's foremost poets Taliesin's is one of the most important names in all Welsh literature - and one of its greatest mysteries. He has fascinated and inspired some of our greatest poets, including Tennyson and Robert Graves. He is a poet; a shapeshifter; a seer; a chronicler of battles fought, by sword and with magic, between the ancient kingdoms of the fifth- and sixth-century British Isles; a bridge between old Welsh mythologies and the new Christian theology; and a figure whose literary legend culminated with the compilation in thirteenth-century North Wales of The Book of Taliesin, an anthology gathering the work of some 700 years of anonymous hands. In the first volume since 1915 to gather the The Book of Taliesin in its entirety, Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan Williams's artfully accessible translation makes these outrageous, swaggering and joyful poems available to a new generation of readers.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
ISBN-139780141396934
eBay Product ID (ePID)25046378681
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain
AuthorRowan Williams, Gwyneth Lewis
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicPoetry
Publication Year2020
GenreAncient Literature
Number of Pages304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorGwyneth Lewis, Rowan Williams
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom